X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:31:45 -0800 (PST) From: "Peter A. Castro" To: Eli Barzilay cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: HISTFILE in zsh In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Eli Barzilay wrote: Greetings, Eli, (Sorry for the long delay, vacation, etc etc.) > I'm having the same problem that is described at > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-12/msg00195.html > > I'm surprised that it was reported in 2004 -- I use cygwin on several > machines with no problems, it's only a new one that is having the > above symptom. > > (Which is related to saving/loading the history file -- `fc -R foo' > and `fc -W foo' also hang. Using strace, it looks like the problem is > some kind of an infinite loop that is related to a lock file for the > history file.) I've seen this reported before, but I still can't seem to reproduce it. Can you collect the system info as per http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html In your debugging, what routine were you seeing the loop? Was it zsh code or cygwin code? Was it a system call returning a bad value? I'd like to track this down finally. Lastly, have you tried the latest cygwin snapshot? Thanks! -- Peter A. Castro or "Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood -- 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/