X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <444EA84C.1020109@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 18:53:00 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot References: <20060425134320 DOT fb30e530d17747c2b054d625b8945d88 DOT 6a269b6ea8 DOT wbe AT email DOT secureserver DOT net> <055e01c668ad$b32316d0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20060425212732 DOT GE18840 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> In-Reply-To: <20060425212732.GE18840@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:17:47PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 25 April 2006 21:43, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >> >>> Ernie Coskrey wrote: >>>> it's possible that Jerry has found a scenario that causes this problem to >>>> occur. Maybe not, but if he can reproduce it it would be worth checking. >>> I can reproduce the problem. That's not the issue. I cannot provide a >>> little test app to produce the problem at will. >> Since nobody else is reporting this problem, it seems pretty unlikely that >> anyone else is going to be able to do it for you. >> >>> As for the patch, that's useless - I'm not going to try to learn how to >>> build the Cygwin DLL. >> In that case the P clearly EBKAC. >> >>> However, if anyone can suggest some other >>> simple, non-labor-intensive method for gathering more data on this >>> problem, I'd be willing to give it a try. >> Sounds like your best bet is to sit there and do nothing. Yep, that's it. >> Thats's *bound* to get the bug fixed. Why, surely sooner or later someone >> else will have the same bug and fix it for you? All you have to do is just >> sit there and wait. If you get bored watching the tumbleweed roll past, you >> could always read >> >> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin >> >> to pass the time. > > While I generally agree with the sentiment, in this case, I don't think > it would be productive to attempt a build of the DLL until I've verified > that I can't reproduce the problem with the supplied scripts. > > And, I really don't think it's a good idea to start supposing reasons > for the hang yet unless someone wants to actually look at the > differences between the snapshots and propose a theory based on the > that. > I looked at the differences and I think the problem is due to one of them. Yep, no doubt about it. There's got to be a change in there that's the cause of this problem. HTH, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 PS ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/