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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:51:25 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: on the road to 1.5.19 - snapshot testing needed
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:09:58PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>The latest snapshot is chock full of developer goodness and needs to
>>be tested.
>>
>>Both Corinna and I spent a lot of time trying to track down the reported
>>fork() problems.  We didn't fix them* but this snapshot contains better
>>fork error reporting.
>
>Sorry for always being a bit late but testing my favorite testcase
>takes a while. Basically we see the same problem as in
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00803.html>.
>(This is with 20050929)
>
>The build hangs in a tcsh command like:
>      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>     3968       1    3968       3968  con 11290 20:18:06 /usr/bin/bash
>      556    3968     556       3436  con 11290 20:18:15 /usr/bin/tcsh
>     2880     556    2880        340  con 11290 20:18:51 /usr/bin/perl
>     3944    2880    2880       2644  con 11290 12:25:33 
>     /cygdrive/e/work/OOo/SRC680_m124/solenv/wntmsci10/bin/dmake
>     4020    3944    2880       2620  con 11290 12:25:33 /usr/bin/tcsh
>     2296    4020    2880       2296  con 11290 12:25:33 /usr/bin/tcsh
>     3992       1    3992       3992  con 11290 12:41:26 /usr/bin/bash
>      776    3992     776       3368  con 11290 12:41:49 /usr/bin/ps
>
>And by attaching strace to the hung pid and using "ls /proc/*/fd"
>the attached (behind the cygcheck.log) strace was created.
>
>We tried "kill -s CONT <pid>" this time, that didn't work, the ls did.
>
>  Volker
>
>P.S.: We (?) will try the next snapshot ASAP, unfortunately this
>means in this case on the next weekday (monday).

I wouldn't expect the next snapshot to fix this, unfortunately.  I'm still
puzzling over where the "open_shared" messages are coming from.  Each one
repeats 53 times, which is sort of an odd number.

cgf

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