On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, martouf . wrote: > I don't have ZoneAlarm. > > I get past the xkbcomp problem by disabling keyboard extensions, at > which point 'cat' spins at >90% CPU on .Xauthority instead of 'sh' > spinning on xkbcomp.
maybe /tmp mounted in textmode? strace will show unlimited cycles of textmode/binmode tests then. > I did not have this problem with an older cygwin.dll (see my earlier message). > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-03/msg00048.html > > Is the fork emulation not wait()ing properly? 'cat' seems to be > defunct at the time it is spinning, and yet it consumes CPU. trying > to deliver SIGCHLD? return value from exit()? No. It does. Check http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xc/programs/Xserver/os/utils.c?rev=1.15&view=auto for the actual code (check Fopen and Fclose) bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723