X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:11:11 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks From: Bryan Hogan To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Running 8 instances of the script from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00014.html I get the following results using cygwin 1.7.16 and tcsh 6.18.01: - OK on 32bit XP with 2 cpus - Hangs on 64bit Win2008 with 4 cpus - OK on 64bit Win2008r2 with a single cpu - Hangs on 64bit Win2008r2 with 2 cpus Those last two were the same server (a VMware VM) with the number of cpus changed. Attempting to kill the hung processes crashed the server :-( There are no problems if tcsh 6.17.0 is used. Bryan. -- 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