On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:19:27AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >Snapshot 20050823 19:00:09 is hanging on Win98 (I've been noticing this for a >week or more of previous snapshots, now, but don't know when the bug was >introduced). Oftentimes I get a Windows popup claiming that cat has performed >an illegal operation, at which point the system is low on memory and can't >spawn >any more processes, so I am forced to reboot. This idiom is part of the >coreutils configure script. > >$ cat /proc/uptime >284.85 0.00 >$ cat < /proc/uptime ># no response after 10 minutes, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D do nothing > Huh. This seemed to be silently dying on XP, too. It was not so forgiving on Me, though, as you noted.
This should be fixed in the 20050824 snapshot and "cat < /proc/uptime" do the right thing now, i.e., print the uptime. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
