Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:18:27 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem redirecting stderr to pipe in subprocess
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:24:22AM -0700, jan.kolar wrote:
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>
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>Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:43:42PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>My STCs still don't work right for me under the 2011-10-10 snapshot. 
>>>The bash subprocess no longer shows as stopped when I run ps, but it 
>>>doesn't produce any output either, and it doesn't terminate for several 
>>>minutes.  I eventually get the following message on the terminal
>>>
>>>       1 [main] bash 7604 sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed, 
>>>signal -39, rc 258, Win32 error 0
>>>
>>>and bash leaves a stackdump.  Are you seeing something different?
>> 
>> For me it works on Cygwin the same as it does on Linux.  No hang,
>> obviously.  If it worked like the above I wouldn't have announced
>> a fix.
>
>Then I'll put more words what I meant saying "External conditions might play
>its role."
>
>For example, a problem might appear to be fixed when cygwin1.dll restarted,
>also depending
>on whether and how rebase/rebaseall was applied.
>This is particularly true for well-known (among developers) fork-related
>problems.
>This however might not(?) be fork-related.

You're speculating.  Speculation is not necessary.  This condition is
debuggable and it has nothing to do with anything you've proposed so
far.

cgf

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