Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:35:53 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cvs cygwin1.dll Message-ID: <20020918193553.GA9328@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3d81aa1b.1496411@smtp.ntlworld.com> <20020913125816.GA1030@redhat.com> <3d88c6c1.17117483@smtp.ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d88c6c1.17117483@smtp.ntlworld.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:42:50PM +0000, Guy Harrison wrote: >On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:58:16 -0400, Christopher Faylor >wrote: > >>On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:09:37AM +0000, Guy Harrison wrote: >>>I can't seem to figure out how to set a breakpoint in sigproc.cc without >>>recompiling make with debug. Any hints? >> >>Just attach to the running process and set a breakpoint. >> >>Alternatively, use the "dll" command to load cygwin1.dll and then set >>a breakpoint on a *line number*. > >Thanks, the latter helped verify that debugging made the problem go away >- ditto strace. Initially I thought it was a race. Racing certainly >helps trigger it but that isn't the problem. > >I can't see a mechanism involving cygthread::stub to cater for the case >where "last man out"+1 ensures "last man out" is running. In all >situations where abnormal behaviour occurs we're left waiting upon a >process that consists of a single suspended cygthread::stub thread. >Others should be able to verify this by bumping up the size of the >cygthread.cc threads[] array up to a silly value then attempt an >intensive configure/make/install with it. Conversely now that I've set >threads[1] there's been no breakages. Where are you seeing this wait? Details please. cgf -- 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/