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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:15:32 -0600
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew AT dunslane DOT net>
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Subject: Re: apparent scheduler problem
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Recently after upgrading my installation of Cygwin on XP-Pro, I noticed
> that PostgreSQL started failing one of its regression tests.
[snip]
> The test is for the stats collector, and essentially it does some
> work, waits a couple of seconds in a fairly brain dead busy/wait loop,
> and then checks to see if the stats collector has done the work we
> expect it to have done.
[snip]
> We are wondering if anything is known to have changed in Cygwin recently
> that could account for this.

Sounds to me like yet another case of
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00730.html

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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