From:	cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject:	Re: New snapshot
27 Nov 1998 14:35:26 -0800 :
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To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin developers <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:05:28AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Ok.  I've tweaked a couple of things in the signal code.  There is a
>> new snapshot and a new binary at:
>> 
>> ftp://cambridge.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/
>> --
>> cgf AT cygnus DOT com
>> http://www.cygnus.com/
>> 
>
>With this snapshot in NT 3.51 I occasionally get a pause after which
>the message "proc_terminate: WFSO(hwait_subproc) timed out" is
>displayed.  This happens with a repetitive null command (hold the
>ENTER button down).  Most often the repetitive ENTER will "freeze" the
>window and will not break so I must kill the process.  

If you can duplicate this with an strace log it should be easy to track
down.

>I rebuilt the snapshot with no optimization switch.  I still get the
>afore mentioned error but haven't been able to get it to "freeze".

There is no evidence that optimization has anything to do with this,
AFAIK.

cgf

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