X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:37:46 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Ernie Coskrey" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k3PJbtkJ025966 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Jerry D. Hedden > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:27 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot > > > Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > >I have a cron job (a bash script) > >that runs every 6 minutes, polling and downloading info off the web. > > > >The problem is the script hangs at various places and the stuck > >processes keep building up. > > > >Further, I have to kill these processes using the task monitor: kill > >reports 'No such process'. > > Christopher Faylor replied: > > As mentioned above, a test case showing the problem sure > would be nifty. > > I agree and would have provided one if I could. However, I > have no idea > what is causing this, nor how to write a test case for it. > > As I said, it's a cron job running a bash script - nothing fancy. The > hang does not happen on every invokation of the script, but it does > occur frequently. Where in the script it gets stuck seems to be > random: wget, mkdir, mv, date, diff, etc.. > > > Also, knowing the first snapshot which shows the problem > would be helpful. > > As I said, these sort of problems started after the > 2006-03-09 snapshot. > I double checked, and the problem does occur with the 2006-03-13 > snapshot. > > I wonder if this might be related to the following: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg01062.html The fix suggested in the original message - http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q2/msg00004.html - might help. Ernie Coskrey SteelEye Technology, Inc. -- 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/