X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49FF0586.3010006@sbcglobal.net> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 15:11:02 +0000 From: Greg Chicares User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [cygcheck] produces repeated output - 6 times! References: <20090504082512.GA21324@calimero.vinschen.de> <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF306570A42@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> In-Reply-To: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF306570A42@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 2009-05-04 14:44Z, Thrall, Bryan wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 3:25 AM: >> On Apr 28 11:47, Julio Costa wrote: >>> Bug in cygcheck? Or bug in user? :) >> >> Bug in user as far as the position of the -v option is concerned. > > I can reproduce it; some more details: > > - 'cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v' returns 127 > - it doesn't happen if run from cmd.exe > - '/bin/ash.exe -v' from inside bash works just fine > > Isn't there a feature of Cygwin where it tries 5 or 6 times to restart > Windows apps (such as cygcheck) if they fail in a certain way? That > could explain the repeated output (i.e. cygcheck is trying to do the > documented 'cygcheck [PROGRAM] -v' thing but there's a bug), but my > search fu wasn't able to bring up any results. Search for 'proc_retry' in the User's Guide. Try setting CYGWIN=proc_retry:1 to see whether that's what's happening in this case. -- 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/