Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:54:21 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.20 and stalling cygstart
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On Jul 18 15:58, Demmer, Thomas wrote:
> I can confirm Krzystof's behavior. On a DOS cmd (no bash!) line this stalls
> cygstart. 
> After a while it actually eats up 100% CPU. I have never tried something
> like that
> before, invoking cygstart from a cmd window so I cannot tell if this is new.
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KFIDEMUC312022 1.5.21s(0.156/4/2) 20060707 11:45:39 i686
> Cygwin
> $ echo $CYGWIN
> binmode ntsec smbntsec tty server

This was the important clew.  There was a tiny bug with the CYGWIN=tty
setting.  cgf applied a patch for this.


Corinna

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