X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:49:51 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem [1.7] diff leads to error msg Message-ID: <20091024154951.GD18003@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4ADDC17B DOT 9030604 AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ADDC17B.9030604@bonhard.uklinux.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:56:11PM +0100, Fergus wrote: >Windows 7, Cygwin [1.7] latest snapshot 20091012. >Comparing two large subdirectories with diff leads to error msg. >Output from cygcheck -srv attached. > >~> diff -rq /d/home /m/home > 6 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid >3720, pipe handle 0x10C, Win32 error 998 > 5069911 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid >3720, pipe handle 0x10C, Win32 error 998 >13992405 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid >3720, pipe handle 0x10C, Win32 error 998 > >Any ideas? Unfortunately this error is intermittent. Sometimes (usually, >actually) I can perform the identical comparison without any obvious >glitches. It may be another (or related) manifestation of a bad >interplay between W7, Cygwin and McAfee in the workplace, previously >reported. > >(See in particular http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00385.html. >This is really ruining my Cygwin experience. Needless to say, merely >offering this as a hypothesis - that McAfee is to blame - to local IT >chieftains, went down pretty badly.) And yet, if you are actually running McAfee, that would seem to be the obvious problem. Especially given the fact that the mailing list isn't flooded with people reporting "error sending signal -34" messages. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple