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: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:32:13 -0600 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Joris van der Sande cc: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Hyperthreading problem: remote access In-Reply-To: <41FFFC27.4000808@pulserate.com> Message-ID: References: <41FD7F9D.9060608@pulserate.com> <6.2.0.14.0.20050130195041.05c31ec0@pop.prospeed.net> <41FFFC27.4000808@pulserate.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2005 22:31:56.0789 (UTC) FILETIME=[D6507A50:01C508AD] X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Joris van der Sande wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: > > Chris has already answered that question earlier in > > the discussion. He needs physical access to the > > machine to resolve this problem. Remote access isn't > > enough. > > Forgive my ignorance, but I read the archives back to > 1 jan 2004 but found no explanation why remote access > doesn't help the developers to track down the problem. > Could someone please point me to the relevant postings? > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00521.html Specifically, cgf wrote: >Fixing this problem will be difficult. Dealing with race conditions >like this always is difficult. I don't want to do this over the >internet. It would be too painful and there is no guarantee that I >could even do it at all. It could involve machine reboots (I just had >to do one of these yesterday while debugging a non-thread race >condition). Mostly, this is a case of a volunteer not wanting to deal with that sort of hassle. YMMV. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/