X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: postinstall hang Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:48:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <001901c89348$cd86c8b0$06bca8c0@bigtower> From: "Popper, Samuel \(US SSA\)" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 m2VKnT1F007976 > I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the postinstall > always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. I am still having this problem (as evidenced by previous messages). I've come up with a bash script "test case" that demonstrates the problem: $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo $NUM; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done will run indefinitely, whereas: $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done Hangs pretty quickly, usually while printing some number in the 100-200 range. Killing the windows bash.exe process at the leaf of the process tree causes the script to resume counting. -Sam -- 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/