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Subject: Re: strange hang/loop with 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot - mysteriously  solved!
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:38:40PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> >Volker Quetschke wrote:
> >> With the 20051224 - 14:34 snapshot I see a strange hang while
> >> building OOo.
> >
> >Not any longer. After changing a few snapshots/some reboots I couldn't
> >reproduce the issue anymore.
> >
> >Sorry for the noise
>
> Well, as much as I hate to say it, maybe "not so fast".
>
> I have seen some strange behavior from my local cygwin build.  It is
> extremely hard to track down but, every so often, I see something like
> ls misbehaving.  No output shows up at all.
>
> I'll keep an eye out in case this isn't a fluke but it seems like
> something strange is going on.

Speaking of no output -- I've managed to reproduce Tom Rodman's 'no output
from "ssh localhost date"' problem[*] with the recent CVS builds
(including today's CVS HEAD).  I was thinking of debugging this myself,
but could post an strace if it's likely to be helpful.  I have to admit I
don't understand the code that well -- the strace seems to simply go from
open_shared to maybe_set_exit_code_from_windows, which doesn't look like a
normal sequence of events...

If you think this is unlikely to be related to the problems you mention,
let me know and I'll try to dig deeper myself.
HTH,
	Igor
[*] <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00954.html>
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