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Subject: RE: python fails in windows shell
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:32:09 +0100
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On 25 July 2006 18:21, Volker Quetschke wrote:

> Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 25 July 2006 08:48, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
>> 
>>> When I try to run python in Windows shell, it hangs. Even the simplest
>>> test like python -c 'print "foo"' will result in ntvdm process taking
>>> 100% CPU. I tried it with 1.5.19 and 1.5.17 and got the same result.
>>> 
>>> When I strace python, I get a bit surprising output:
>>> 
>>> D:\cygwin\home\Krzysiek>strace python
>>> --- Process 52048, exception 40000005 at 7C81EB33
>>> --- Process 52048, exception 40000005 at 7C81EB33
>>> --- Process 52048, exception 40000005 at 7C81EB33
>>> [...]
> 
> I might go out on a limb here, but I got similar responses from
> xmgrace until I did a "rebaseall". That fixed it.
> 
>>   ;-) Take a look at the output from
>> 
>> file `which python`
> 
> Might also be a broken python executable ...

  How would that matter?  cmd.exe has no idea how to follow a cygwin symlink,
so the actual executable isn't going to be invoked at all in the situation
described above.

  OTOH, 'strace' does know how to follow a symlink (IIRTSC), and is hence
showing some other problem, so your rebase suggestion could still be valid.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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