X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18fLjVGf98e1kxyrYeQNH46 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:08:22 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please test snapshots Message-ID: <20120810190822.GA17598@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <50203227.50207@dancol.org> <50205E0E.3060406@dancol.org> <20120808215909.GA29761@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <5023CF06.2030006@dancol.org> <20120810142515.GE11601@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <87r4reocjf.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20120810181235.GA17158@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <87mx22oav3.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mx22oav3.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:33:36PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> ...and those are the kind of details which allows us to at least make >> educated guesses about problems. Showing a "defunct" ps listing, not so >> much... > >You know this, but a defunct listing means that a process terminated, >but wasn't reaped by it's parent process. Unless that parent process >crashed hard I can't remember seeing that happen in Cygwin, which is why >I thought it noteworthy. ...and that's why I asked: >> It's probably too late to ask but is the make process still around? > >I killed make because I forgot to add a variable definition on the >command line. Only later did I find it left that zombie git process >that should have been terminated with it (I know it was associated with >that particular make invocation by its start time). So you don't know if the make process was actually still around. Got it. cgf -- 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