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: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 15:35:04 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Create file on remote node, immediate test-r fails intermittently Message-ID: <20010615153504.J324@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Richard_Senior@meridian-vat.com on Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:50:22PM +0100 On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:50:22PM +0100, Richard_Senior@meridian-vat.com wrote: > > On 15-Jun-2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 12:57:48PM +0100, Richard_Senior@meridian-vat.com > wrote: > > > > > However, in the last couple of days a colleague of mine has run into an > > > issue with a shell script that automates conversion of scanned > documents > > > from TIF to GIF. Sometimes (< 10%) the script does not see the GIF file > it > > > has just created. > > > > > We have simulated the structure of the script in this test case: > > > > I ran your included test case for several hours on two different > > machines without error. > > I've just re-installed the entire 1.3.2 Cygwin release from > programming.ccp14.ac.uk on a single-processor box with 192MB memory and NT > 4.00.1381. I tried the script on a Linux box last night and it was OK but > the errors come freely with all installations of Cygwin at this site. > Output from one run of the test case is as follows: > [...] > Could you tell me more about the machines on which you have run this script > successfully? What version of Cygwin, what operating system, etc. > I couldn't reproduce it either, using W2K, 384MB, NTFS, CYGWIN=ntsec. BTW, I saw in your cygcheck output that your CYGWIN variable is set to a path. That's wrong. The CYGWIN environment variable should contain Cygwin specific settings. Look into the online user docs at http://cygwin.com/docs.html. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple