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From:	Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Race condition spawning childs/pipe stuff?
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This is basically a "me too", so I snipped as much as possible.

Max Kaehn wrote:
...
>>Occasionally, the build process hangs with a spawned child (sh.exe)
>>eating with 100% user cpu.
>>It seems the build command itself (spawned make) finished but
>>child/parent? shell doesnt exit.
>>
>>When i kill sh.exe manually, the (recursive) build process continues and
>>finishes.
Reproduced (very rarely) while building OOo with cygwin 1.5.19-4.

...
> I've been getting the same thing with Cygwin 1.5.19-3, but it's
> extremely hard to reproduce:  when doing endurance testing by repeatedly
> building Mozilla, it only happened a single time on build #518 out of
> 570 (thus far).
Exactly, only saw this two times out of the last week of building time.
(i.e. the time that an OOo build was actually running on that machine.)

...

> Can anyone suggest other useful data to gather for the next time
> this happens?
Yes, maybe I can help too.

Thanks

     Volker

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