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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 17:51:52 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.3-2 hangs on semaphore somewhere in NTDLL.DLL
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 10:44:25PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Monday 15 Oct 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Robert Bogomip wrote:
>> >  $ uname -a
>> >  CYGWIN_NT-5.0 MACH 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
>> >
>> >Right then. On my Win2000 (service pack 2) machine I've got two CPUs (733
>> >Coppermines). Thus I often do "make -j 3" for fast builds. Unfortunately,
>> >make often hangs on 1.3.3-2.  This appears to be a bug of 1.3.3-2 (i.e.,
>> >it has always worked/continues to work with previous cygwin dll releases).
>> 
>> This problem was mentioned in the release announcement.
>
>Do you mean this?
>
>On Wednesday 12 Sep 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> *** Known bugs:
>> 
>> - There is a very sporadic core-dumping situation that seems to be
>>   best triggered by recursive makes.  We have not been able to track
>>   down the cause of this problem after more than two weeks of trying.  So,
>>   since it has been proven to be very rare, I'm releasing 1.3.3 with this
>>   known problem.  If you can provide any insight on why this is happening
>>   please send email with lots and lots of details to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com.
>>   "Hey!  It dies for me too!" emails will not be helpful unless you provide
>>   either an exhaustive amount of detail (stack trace, easily reproducible
>>   test case, patch).  (Christopher Faylor)
>
>This mentions a core-dump, Robert describes a hang.  Shall I add this
>to the "relnotes" part of the FAQ, in the "known bugs" section?

They are undoubtedly related but, you're right, I didn't mention a hang.

Jonathan Kamens did mention this prior to the 1.3.3 release and I neglected
to mention it in the release notes.

I guess it makes sense to mention it in the FAQ since it has now been asked
about several times.

cgf

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