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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:25:01 -0600
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On 1/25/2012 1:58 PM, Kevin Layer wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote:
>>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>> This problem is killing me.  I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32
>>>>>>> because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore.
>>>>>>> In my testing, so far, I've never seen msysgit or the bash that comes
>>>>>>> with it crash.  Why is it that cygwin has this problem but msysgit
>>>>>>> does not?  It's an honest question and I'm not trying to be
>>>>>>> provocative.  I've been a cygwin user since before Red Hat acquired
>>>>>>> them, and the above statement makes me really sad.
>>>>>> Have you tried running rebaseall?
>>>> Absolutely.  After updating cygwin, I reboot and run rebaseall -v
>>>> first thing.
>>> FYI, as far as I can tell the stack trace that you provided did not seem
>>> to come from the 20120123 snapshot.
> OK, I didn't have the snapshot installed.  It was the 1.7.9 dll.  I
> had copied it in, then found I couldn't start bash, backed out the
> change, and rebooted, but I guess I forgot to redo it.
>
> I just installed it and did some testing, and it seems to be working
> OK.
>
> I'll report back if I see another crash.  I just ran this test, in
> parallel on 4 different source trees (each composed of 52 repos):
>    git fetch origin
>    git rebase origin/master
>    git status
>
> and not a single crash.  It's usually good for 3-5 crashes, if I do
> them in parallel like that.
>
> Fingers crossed.
>
> NOTE: I run with CYGWIN="nodosfilewarning proc_retry:1" because I run
> a lot of non-cygwin software from shell scripts, and during testing,
> that can take 10's of minutes, I can't afford to have those programs
> restarted if they crash on exit.  Before setting proc_retry:1, I once
> saw a loop of a 30 minute test run that went on for 10+ iterations.
>
> It would be really nice if you could apply proc_retry to cygwin
> programs only.  Would that be possible?  Then, I could remove that
> setting from CYGWIN and life would probably be better for me.
>
>
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Are you able to put that CYGWIN setting inside the shell scripts that
need it, and therefore not have it apply to any other scripts?

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