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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:02:22 +0100
From: Fergus <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem [1.7] find ... | xargs ... in [1.7]: too fast for its  own good?
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>  I tried this with the Cygwin release directory multiple times, with
>  the release dir on a local drive as well as on a remote NFS drive. I
>  can't reproduce this weird behaviour.  I'm wondering if that's one of
>  these dreaded BLODA problems again...

Thank you very much indeed for trying this. The reported problem 
occurred on my work machine with Windows 7, only marginally better than 
Vista in my limited experience so far (on a machine running which I have 
so far been unable to test this phenomenon). Here at home with XP SP3, 
there is no such bad behaviour, with all file-handling and manipulation 
using both [1.5] and [1.7] as steady as a rock.

A strange feature -- and annoying, because this very weekend past I had 
resolved to mothball [1.5] and simply get on with [1.7] as my default 
system of choice, precisely because it is so fast. The misbehaviour 
seems guaranteed with 1.7.62 and 1.7.61 (I mean, the precise 
manifestation of the fault varies unpredictably with the occasion, but 
some kind of error occurs with probability 1). I think I will try a 
reversion to 1.7.60 and earlier, to try to see whether there is a clear 
commencement, but presently I suspect the W7 platform*.

(* Can't go for 10 consecutive minutes without incurring the "Windows 
Explorer has stopped working" glitch. Excruciating. Does anybody know a 
cure?)

Fergus


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