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To: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: An easy (but possibly time-consuming) test case for Make hanging (was: Re: Make hung in WaitForMultipleObjects inside Cygwin)
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From: Jesper Eskilson <jojo AT virtutech DOT se>
Organization: Virtutech AB
Date: 05 Mar 2001 08:57:29 +0100
In-Reply-To: Jonathan Kamens's message of "4 Mar 2001 16:14:55 -0500"
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Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com> writes:

> I've found that if you put the Makefile shown below into an empty
> directory on a dual-processor machine running Cygwin 1.1.8-2 and Make
> 3.79.1-2 and run "while true; do make -j2; done", you'll eventually
> get a Make process hung as I described in my messages last week
> (although it may take a couple of days).  You know things are hung
> when output stops in the window in which you run the "while" loop.
> 
> I've reach the limit of my ability to debug this further.  Could
> someone with more knowledge of Cygwin internals try to duplicate this,
> using this test case?

I can offer to test it on a single-CPU machine, if that is of interest.

/Jesper
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Jesper Eskilson                                         jojo AT virtutech DOT se
Virtutech                                         http://www.virtutech.se
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