Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/04/25/18:53:39
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:17:47PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 25 April 2006 21:43, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
>>
>>> Ernie Coskrey wrote:
>>>> it's possible that Jerry has found a scenario that causes this problem to
>>>> occur. Maybe not, but if he can reproduce it it would be worth checking.
>>> I can reproduce the problem. That's not the issue. I cannot provide a
>>> little test app to produce the problem at will.
>> Since nobody else is reporting this problem, it seems pretty unlikely that
>> anyone else is going to be able to do it for you.
>>
>>> As for the patch, that's useless - I'm not going to try to learn how to
>>> build the Cygwin DLL.
>> In that case the P clearly EBKAC.
>>
>>> However, if anyone can suggest some other
>>> simple, non-labor-intensive method for gathering more data on this
>>> problem, I'd be willing to give it a try.
>> Sounds like your best bet is to sit there and do nothing. Yep, that's it.
>> Thats's *bound* to get the bug fixed. Why, surely sooner or later someone
>> else will have the same bug and fix it for you? All you have to do is just
>> sit there and wait. If you get bored watching the tumbleweed roll past, you
>> could always read
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
>>
>> to pass the time.
>
> While I generally agree with the sentiment, in this case, I don't think
> it would be productive to attempt a build of the DLL until I've verified
> that I can't reproduce the problem with the supplied scripts.
>
> And, I really don't think it's a good idea to start supposing reasons
> for the hang yet unless someone wants to actually look at the
> differences between the snapshots and propose a theory based on the
> that.
>
I looked at the differences and I think the problem is due to one of
them. Yep, no doubt about it. There's got to be a change in there
that's the cause of this problem.
HTH,
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