From: rrankin AT primenet DOT com (Rick Rankin)
Subject: RE: Bugs I've discovered...
15 Jan 1999 01:16:18 -0800
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To: "Geoffrey Noer" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, "Glenn Spell" <glenn AT gs DOT fay DOT nc DOT us>
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Actually, NT 4 SP3 locked up on me a couple of days ago while configuring
XEmacs. I wasn't paying that much attention, but configure seemed to be
taking longer than usual. When I checked, I couldn't move the mouse, and
Ctrl-Alt-Delete did nothing. I hit reset to reboot, reran configure, and all
was fine. Since I couldn't repeat it, I didn't figure it was worth
reporting, but since we're talking about it...

Rick
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Rick Rankin
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On
Behalf Of Geoffrey Noer
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 4:09 PM
To: Glenn Spell
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Bugs I've discovered...


Glenn Spell wrote:
[...]
> > 6) Occasionally when doing long drawn out configures or makes the
> > whole shell window locks up completely and I have to open another
> > window and do a kill -9 pid to try to fix it (which sometimes doesn't
> > take.
>
> This has been reported by several souls. Preleminary indications are
> that this is unique to Windows 95. What OS are you running?
>
> Other indications are that Cygnus will not take this problem
> seriously until many more souls report it... if even then!

Nope, this is a problem we're taking quite seriously.  Unfortunately
it's a *very* hard problem to isolate and fix.  From what I currently
think is going on, we have to figure out how to change Cygwin so that
we don't expose bugs in the Windows 95 kernel.  *sigh*

Installing the USB patch does seem to help a lot as does upgrading to
Windows 98 or (better yet) Windows NT.  That's the best advice I can
give for now...

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