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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:10:36 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:05:36AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:15:10PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>>>>Even though it is the correct snapshot I didn't see many of your
>>>>debug statements in the strace.
>>>
>>>Yes.  So much for that theory.
>>>
>>>There's a new snapshot with even more debugging available now.
>>
>>Here is the new strace: <http://www.scytek.de/tc5_20051104.tar.bz2>
>
>That one showed that cygwin was hanging in a windows function that
>shouldn't really hang.  I can't explain why but the new snapshot avoids
>calling that function so much.

Actually, to clarify, I can explain why the new snapshot avoids calling
the function because that's what I did to "fix" things.  I can't explain
why the windows function "timeGetDevCaps" would hang.

cgf

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