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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:53:05 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
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On 6/24/2012 5:30 PM, marco atzeri wrote:
> while building latest atlas I hit a bug that is crashing all the running
> cygwin process.
> It crashes on 20120619 snapshot and also latest cvs source.
> No issue on 20120611 snapshot.

I'm also seeing this crash, but it does not kill all running cygwin 
processes.  The only processes that die are the mintty processes and the 
associated bash processes.  For example, it just happened a few minutes 
ago, and XWin survived, along with emacs and xterm.

It happens intermittently, maybe once every 3 days, and I haven't found 
a simple sequence of steps for reproducing it.  All I can say for sure 
is that I always have more than one mintty running, and they all die.

Marco, are you sure all cygwin processes die when you experience this 
problem?  Also, since you can reliably reproduce the crash, have you 
tried reverting to the previous version of mintty?  Note that mintty was 
updated just a few days before the 20120619 snapshot was released.

Ken

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