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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:26:01 -0500
From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
Cc: cygdev <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: 100% CPU/Bash command substitution fixed
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In-Reply-To: <38BAD491.EC3EF2B@vinschen.de>; from corinna@vinschen.de on Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 09:03:29PM +0100

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 09:03:29PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:39:48AM -0800, Rick Rankin wrote:
>> >Just a quick note and a word of thanks -- I just downloaded and tried the 0227
>> >snapshot. It appears that the 100% CPU problem and the bash command
>> >substitution problem have been fixed.
>> 
>> I'm glad that I've finally fixed the problem for you but I still have
>> one report of a failure that I'm tracking down.
>> 
>> Btw, I could not have fixed this without the patient and detailed bug
>> reports from people like Kazuhiro Fujieda, Corinna Vinschen, and
>> matt AT use DOT net.
>> 
>> I hope to have the remaining problem tracked down soon.
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>is the following related to your remaining problem?
>
>With the latest patch (00/02/28 08:25:34: pinfo.cc, sigproc.cc)
>I can't start any cygwin app anymore:
>
>Eg. "bash -login" results in
>
>D:\usr\bin\bash.exe: *** shared region is corrupted.  inited 10
>   0 [main] ? 0 lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0, pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF,
>Win32 error 6
>
>The strace output is an empty file, unfortunately.

That's usually a sign of some other process running with a different
DLL.  I updated some of the cygwin version numbers recently.

Does this happen after you've rebooted?

cgf