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: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:02:44 -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: <20010305110244.B14125@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: ; from jojo@virtutech.se on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:57:29AM +0100 On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:57:29AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote: >Jonathan Kamens writes: > >> 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? > >I can offer to test it on a single-CPU machine, if that is of interest. It's not testing that is required. It is someone who is higher limits to their ability to debug the problem. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple