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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:09:17 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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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In-Reply-To: <20010305110244.B14125@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:02:44AM -0500

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:02:44AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:57:29AM +0100, Jesper Eskilson wrote:
>>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.
>
>It's not testing that is required.  It is someone who is higher limits
						       ^^
						       has
>to their ability to debug the problem.
>
>cgf
>
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