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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:57:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: RE: Postinstall hangs with bash
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:

> > From: Igor Pechtchanski
>
> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in
> > seeing the results of the experiments outlined in the above message on
> > your machine...  Maybe you could glean something from the strace output as
> > well.
>
> $ for i in myPostinstall.sh.done  myPostinstall2.sh.done
> myPostinstall3.sh.done; do echo -e "\n---" $i "---";cat $i;done
>
> --- myPostinstall.sh.done ---
> #!/bin/bash -x
> echo "$(cygpath -w /)"
>
> --- myPostinstall2.sh.done ---
> #!/bin/sh -x
> bash -c "echo $(cygpath -w /)"
>
> --- myPostinstall3.sh.done ---
> #!/bin/sh -x
> strace -o postinstall.strace bash -c "echo $(cygpath -w /)"
>
> myPostinstall.sh does the "hang". (i.e. the first of your tests). The other
> two tests works just fine <SIGH> ;-)
> I've attached /postinstall.strace  (name as it actually was created)

Hannu,

*If* you are able to reproduce the hang...  Otherwise the strace is
perfectly normal, and thus a waste of bandwidth...

Hmm, I just realized that you can run setup under strace!  It won't show
any Windows calls, obviously, but it will show calls to Cygwin programs,
which is what you want, anyway.  If you could reproduce the hang under
strace, that output might actually be useful.  You should only run the
first script, obviously.
	Igor
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