Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:26:50 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Intermittent failures with ctrl-c
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:20:20PM -0500, Tom Honermann wrote:
>On 01/20/2013 05:08 PM, Tom Honermann wrote:
>> However, I was still able to reproduce another case.  As before, one of
>> the processes is being left running when the rest are terminated.  The
>> "abandoned" process appears to be in a live-lock state with two threads
>> (threads 1 and 2) running at 100%.  Of particular interest is that each
>> time I press ctrl-c in the cmd.exe console this process was spawned
>> from, a new thread appears in the process even though this program is no
>> longer a foreground process and all other Cygwin processes have
>> terminated.  The new threads never exit.
>
>I noticed that more changes were checked in that looked like they might 
>address this, so I tested again with the latest snapshot (20130123).
>
>I wasn't able to reproduce any of the symptoms I previously reported.  Yay!
>
>However, just as I was about to give up testing, I hit one more new 
>issue.  One of the ctrl-c events sent bash into what appeared to be an 
>infinite loop emitting error messages like these:
>
>11408974 [unknown (0x144C)] bash 1752 exception::handle: Error while 
>dumping state (probably corrupted stack)
>11411584 [unknown (0x144C)] bash 1752 exception::handle: Error while 
>dumping state (probably corrupted stack)
>
>While this was going on, hitting ctrl-c had no discernible effect.  I 
>resorted to killing the process via task manager.
>
>This only occurred once, I wasn't able to get it to happen again.

Was there a stackdump?

cgf

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