Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/11/26/17:19:46
On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 01:35:12AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi again Chris,
>
>Before a few minutes, I started the pdksh Shell the first time with
>the new snapshot. This shows another interesting behaviour. _Every_
>time, I start a process from command line, it does it work, then there is
>a long pause as in tcsh, and then the following message appears, before
>the shell prompt reappears:
>
>****** exceptions.cc:401 __get_signal_mutex failed, res 258, error 2
> 0) function exceptions.cc, line 364
>
>This is the message from sigproc.cc(__get_signal_mutex),
>
> ...
> else if (howlong >= 1000)
> small_printf(...)
>
>which didn't exist in the last snapshot. I'm sure, the previously
>described problem in tcsh has the same reason.
>
>I hoped to find the solution myself, but for today, I didn't understand
>enough of the underlying code. I'm too tired.
That error is diagnostic output that I added when debugging the slow
configure problem. It's indicating a race in the sigsuspend code.
I'll look into it.
-chris
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