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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:08:31 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Michael Robbert cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup hangs in postinstall In-Reply-To: <3FD78817.9020806@mines.edu> Message-ID: References: <3FD617A6.8050806@mines.edu> <3FD6222D.6040702@m4x.org> <3FD77B62.90909@mines.edu> <3FD78817.9020806@mines.edu> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote: > [snip] > > > > Have you tried to strace it? > Yes, I think that this was included in my initial Email. strace produces > no output. I have tried attaching to a running/hung one as well as > running: > > strace sh -c TEST=`uname -s` > > Both produced nothing, I suspect that the hang is actually happening > outside of the sh that I create in the latter. BTW, if you don't escape the backticks ("`"s), they will be evaluated in the *current* shell. You should try to run strace sh -c 'TEST=`uname -s`' (note the single quotes). You can see the difference by comparing the output of "sh -cx TEST=`uname -s`" and "sh -cx 'TEST=`uname -s`'". Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/