X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:06:02 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 20060301 snapshot and later. sh hangs with very long command line Message-ID: <20060313000602.GA19770@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <98A22DD7-2111-489A-9843-E0176048A2BB@rehley.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <98A22DD7-2111-489A-9843-E0176048A2BB@rehley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 05:31:03PM -0800, Peter Rehley wrote: >Hi, > >I was building binutils using the cygwin 20060308 snapshot, and when >it did the check for "finding the maximum length of command line" a >sh shell goes to 99% cpu usage and doesn't return until I end the >process using task manager. > >I isolated the portion of the script that was hanging and was able to >repeat the problem. The script hangs when it checks for a command >line of length 16384. This happens every time I run the script, and >it is reproducible for me on at least windows 2000 and windows XP. >I've attached a test script. > >The problem doesn't happen with the 20060227 snapshot, but appeared >in 20060301 and later versions. It is present in the 20060309 snapshot. Thanks for the test case. This should be fixed in the next snapshot. cgf -- 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/