Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:50:29 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging (was: Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin) Message-ID: <20010304175029.A7482@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010228155722.21696.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010228162324.21997.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010228163528.22101.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010301210358.31563.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010302185213.19881.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <22288145100.20010302222958@logos-m.ru> <20010302193602.22711.qmail@lizard.curl.com> <20010304211455.5961.qmail@lizard.curl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010304211455.5961.qmail@lizard.curl.com>; from jik@curl.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:14:55PM -0500 On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:14:55PM -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote: >I've found that if you put the Makefile shown below into an empty >directory on a dual-processor machine running Cygwin 1.1.8-2 and Make >3.79.1-2 and run "while true; do make -j2; done", you'll eventually >get a Make process hung as I described in my messages last week >(although it may take a couple of days). You know things are hung >when output stops in the window in which you run the "while" loop. > >I've reach the limit of my ability to debug this further. Could >someone with more knowledge of Cygwin internals try to duplicate this, >using this test case? In case someone is expecting the "someone with more knowledge" to be me, I wanted to let everyone know that I'm not planning on debugging this and will be interested in seeing who might be stepping forward to give it a go. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple