Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/10/01/12:51:36
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:09:58PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>The latest snapshot is chock full of developer goodness and needs to
>>be tested.
>>
>>Both Corinna and I spent a lot of time trying to track down the reported
>>fork() problems. We didn't fix them* but this snapshot contains better
>>fork error reporting.
>
>Sorry for always being a bit late but testing my favorite testcase
>takes a while. Basically we see the same problem as in
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00803.html>.
>(This is with 20050929)
>
>The build hangs in a tcsh command like:
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 3968 1 3968 3968 con 11290 20:18:06 /usr/bin/bash
> 556 3968 556 3436 con 11290 20:18:15 /usr/bin/tcsh
> 2880 556 2880 340 con 11290 20:18:51 /usr/bin/perl
> 3944 2880 2880 2644 con 11290 12:25:33
> /cygdrive/e/work/OOo/SRC680_m124/solenv/wntmsci10/bin/dmake
> 4020 3944 2880 2620 con 11290 12:25:33 /usr/bin/tcsh
> 2296 4020 2880 2296 con 11290 12:25:33 /usr/bin/tcsh
> 3992 1 3992 3992 con 11290 12:41:26 /usr/bin/bash
> 776 3992 776 3368 con 11290 12:41:49 /usr/bin/ps
>
>And by attaching strace to the hung pid and using "ls /proc/*/fd"
>the attached (behind the cygcheck.log) strace was created.
>
>We tried "kill -s CONT <pid>" this time, that didn't work, the ls did.
>
> Volker
>
>P.S.: We (?) will try the next snapshot ASAP, unfortunately this
>means in this case on the next weekday (monday).
I wouldn't expect the next snapshot to fix this, unfortunately. I'm still
puzzling over where the "open_shared" messages are coming from. Each one
repeats 53 times, which is sort of an odd number.
cgf
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