X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B083047.8050101@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:24:07 +0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK References: <4B061709.2040507@cygwin.com> <20091120112052.GT29173@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091120143237.GD18289@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20091120144958.GW29173@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091120184906.GA27241@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20091121121218.GZ29173@calimero.vinschen.de> <20091121173625.GB9003@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 mike marchywka wrote: > No, read my posts. I contributed an observation that suggests the > windoze variables don't handle concurrent updates well. Two threads > needn't come from same process. This is where your misunderstanding comes in. If they aren't from the same process, they cannot be updating the same copy of the environment, since each process has its own, so there can not possibly be a concurrency issue. > Well, again, if the OS has some underlying issue It doesn't; you really have misunderstood the situation. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple