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, 15 Oct 2001 22:44:25 +0100 Message-ID: <7301-Mon15Oct2001224425+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.92 under 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.3-2 hangs on semaphore somewhere in NTDLL.DLL In-Reply-To: <20011015144641.E6984@redhat.com> References: <3BCB2D32.8050406@milohedge.com> <20011015144641.E6984@redhat.com> On Monday 15 Oct 01, Christopher Faylor writes: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Robert Bogomip wrote: > > $ uname -a > > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 MACH 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown > > > >Right then. On my Win2000 (service pack 2) machine I've got two CPUs (733 > >Coppermines). Thus I often do "make -j 3" for fast builds. Unfortunately, > >make often hangs on 1.3.3-2. This appears to be a bug of 1.3.3-2 (i.e., > >it has always worked/continues to work with previous cygwin dll releases). > > This problem was mentioned in the release announcement. Do you mean this? On Wednesday 12 Sep 01, Christopher Faylor writes: > *** Known bugs: > > - There is a very sporadic core-dumping situation that seems to be > best triggered by recursive makes. We have not been able to track > down the cause of this problem after more than two weeks of trying. So, > since it has been proven to be very rare, I'm releasing 1.3.3 with this > known problem. If you can provide any insight on why this is happening > please send email with lots and lots of details to cygwin@cygwin.com. > "Hey! It dies for me too!" emails will not be helpful unless you provide > either an exhaustive amount of detail (stack trace, easily reproducible > test case, patch). (Christopher Faylor) This mentions a core-dump, Robert describes a hang. Shall I add this to the "relnotes" part of the FAQ, in the "known bugs" section? David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/