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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:38:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup hangs during postinstall
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote:
> > but using #!/bin/sh doesn't.  likewise, strace hangs here:
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > FOO=`strace -o /tmp/cygpath.strace cypath -S`
> >
> > but not using #!/bin/sh.
> >
> > Neither hang if setup is launched from bash instead of explorer.
>
> Brian,
>
> strace will, of course, hang, but if Cygwin is looping somewhere
> internally, the strace file will be appended.  Can you look at it and see
> what it's doing (towards the end)?  Does it show repeated information
> (someone reported "WaitForMultipleObjects timed out" messages, see
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00455.html>)?
> 	Igor
>
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear enough.  There is no strace output file
produced in the hang case.

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