X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:43:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [cygcheck] produces repeated output - 6 times! Message-ID: <20090504154342.GB4286@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20090504082512 DOT GA21324 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF306570A42 AT srv1163ex1 DOT flightsafety DOT com> <49FF0586 DOT 3010006 AT sbcglobal DOT net> <20090504151802 DOT GA4286 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF306570A98 AT srv1163ex1 DOT flightsafety DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF306570A98@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 10:18 AM: > >> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:11:02PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote: >>> On 2009-05-04 14:44Z, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 3:25 AM: >>>>> On Apr 28 11:47, Julio Costa wrote: >>>>>> Bug in cygcheck? Or bug in user? :) >>>>> >>>>> Bug in user as far as the position of the -v option is concerned. >>>> >>>> I can reproduce it; some more details: >>>> >>>> - 'cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v' returns 127 >>>> - it doesn't happen if run from cmd.exe >>>> - '/bin/ash.exe -v' from inside bash works just fine >>>> >>>> Isn't there a feature of Cygwin where it tries 5 or 6 times to >restart >>>> Windows apps (such as cygcheck) if they fail in a certain way? That >>>> could explain the repeated output (i.e. cygcheck is trying to do the >>>> documented 'cygcheck [PROGRAM] -v' thing but there's a bug), but my >>>> search fu wasn't able to bring up any results. >>> >>> Search for 'proc_retry' in the User's Guide. >>> >>> Try setting >>> CYGWIN=proc_retry:1 >>> to see whether that's what's happening in this case. > >Thanks, Greg, for the pointer! > >>If it is, then cygcheck would be exiting with a bad status and bash >>would be causing cygcheck to restart. You wouldn't see the problem >>from the windows command line. > >Aren't those the exact symptoms I described? The "exact symptoms"? No, in fact it was not. I was clarifying what to look for but I guess I should have said "Please try this from the windows command line". >> cygcheck itself would not be redoing anything because 1) it isn't a >true >> cygwin program and 2) it isn't starting a process when it displays dll >> information. > >Unfortunately, unless I'm doing something wrong, it isn't due to >proc_retry: > >thrall AT pc1163-8413-xp ~ >$ echo $CYGWIN > >thrall AT pc1163-8413-xp ~ >$ cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v >C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\ash.exe > C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll > C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL > C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll > C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll > C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll > ><5 more copies of the DLL info> > >thrall AT pc1163-8413-xp ~ >$ export CYGWIN=proc_retry:1 >thrall AT pc1163-8413-xp ~ >$ cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v >C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\ash.exe > C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll > C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL > C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll > C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll > C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll > ><5 more copies of the DLL info> > >Oh well, at least I learned something :) You have to set the CYGWIN environment variable before any Cygwin program is started. cgf -- 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/