X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+c3IH3MY17RdGmBPnS0bDu Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:13:32 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: All clear (was Re: 2012-03-19 snapshot problematic (was Re: cygwin-1.7.10-1 fork - address space needed by ... already in use)) Message-ID: <20120322151332.GA11547@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20120309154829 DOT GA31351 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120316171426 DOT GA20243 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120319205433 DOT GA5571 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120320051051 DOT GA26977 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120320235619 DOT GA16457 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120321071110 DOT GA2336 AT qp9482> <20120322043800 DOT GA6381 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120322065656 DOT GA1760 AT qp9482> <20120322132938 DOT GA10643 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20120322143756 DOT GA5800 AT qp9482> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120322143756.GA5800@qp9482> 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 Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:29:38AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 AT 07:56:32AM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> >- in tcsh: several concurrent combinations of 'make -j 3', 'make', >>> > fg, Control-Z, bg, which has shown to make tcsh to expose '(badjob)' >>> > and the PC to hang sometimes. >>> >>> Are you saying that there *is* a problem with the current snapshot? Or >>> that you saw a problem with this in 1.7.11 or that you have always seen >>> a problem with this? >I'm saying that i'll try this sort of thing, since this failed >with the snapshot 20120314. I tried this morning, and definitely yes, >the '(badjob)' is rather easy to obtain, but now i know that this is >a (well known) tcsh problem (see BUGS in the tcsh distribution), and >has nothing to do with cygwin1.dll. When you finally kill the process >that tcsh has lost, everything returns in order. > >I also compiled GCC 4.7.0 successfully with no message. > >In any case, with this snapshot 20120321 16h UTC, i was not able to >make the PC hang (i tried it). In my opinion this is the best 1.7 we >have ever had. Thanks for confirming and thanks for keeping the reports coming. I don't think I mentioned that *I think* that my recent changes should have made cygwin a little faster since I removed some synchronization points which might have caused occasional stalls in process creation. 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