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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:40:46 -0400
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: bash never ends consuming 99% of CPU
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In-Reply-To: <OFDACF2A9E.ACCEB76F-ON002568DB.0039AF45@srv.uk.deuba.com>; from jorg.schaible@db.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:47:30AM +0000

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:47:30AM +0000, jorg DOT schaible AT db DOT com wrote:
>unfortunately I had yesterday this weird error that calling the
>function below (defined in my .bashrc) left a dangling bash process in
>memory consuming 99% of my CPU time (in fact, gvim was never called
>either).  After some experiments I found the "error" that caused this
>weird behaviour: My .bashrc had CRLF format.  After changing format to
>normal UNIX-style line endings, the problem vanished.
>
>Unfortunately everyone upgrading from B20.1 to V1.1 may have this
>"experience", since the old Cygwin version mounted the root as text
>while the new will mount it binary.  This problem should be mensioned
>explicitly somewhere in the README.TXT avoiding unnecessary trouble
>after the upgrade.

I have no problems modifying documentation, but I do like to understand
the reasons for doing it.  I don't understand why changing \r\n line
endings to \n line endings causes bash to not consume 98% of your CPU.

cgf

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