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Message-ID: <42C9C8BB.1030308@scytek.de>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:39:39 -0400
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Freeze in perl script after cygwin upgrade 1.5.17 -> 1.5.18
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>>It is a standalone testcase, unfortunately it depends on the absolute path
>>it resides in. To reproduce unpack perlfreeze.zip to d: and then
>>do:
>>$ cd /cygdrive/d/perlfreeze
>>$ ./perltest.pl
>>
>>and see it hang. (In rxvt/bash)
> 
> I've downloaded this and it does just sit there but I don't know how long I'm
> supposed to wait.  Is it supposed to print a lot of stuff right away?
Yes, it's supposed to produce a cab file while reporting what it is doing.

I realized that if you press CTRL-c it really starts to build the cab file,
but it doesn't produce any screen output.

You can uncomment the
   $extracmd='sleep 1 && ';
line in the script and see what should happen.

   Volker


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