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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:42:29 +0300
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On 2022-04-08 02:54, Brian Inglis wrote:
> I've seen infinite loops with readlink in build scripts under Cygwin.
> Seeing that readlink in a process tree makes me suspicious that
> something in a shell script is looping because two paths never match
> or always match under Cygwin.
> Often there is one constant path and a varying path which is subjected
> to readlink in a loop.
> Under Cygwin, you may have to pass the first path through readlink and
> compare that resulting path against the varying value.

Thanks, but I don't think I have such loops in this project. Also, other 
processes hang in independent make jobs, so a hang around readlink 
wouldn't explain that.

There is also an additional detail that I forgot to mention: in the 
stack trace of all leaf processes as displayed by ProcessHacker, it 
seems that the executable entry point is not reached yet. The only 
non-Windows-DLL location is in cygwin1.dll, so I suspect that all 
processes hang at early initialization in Cygwin's DLL entry point.

Thanks,
Alexey

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