Kai Backman wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Jeongkyu Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 9/27/06, Jesús Corrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > dmake (OOD680_m4) randomly freezes with latest cygwin in my Windows XP
>>
>> It might be a workaround for you to run 'ls /proc/*/fd'.
> 
> Short answer: Always build using bash on win32. It's a lot faster and
> doesn't have this issue. "./configure --with-use-shell=bash" and
> "source winenv.set.sh"
> 
> Long answer: This was reported to Cygwin ages ago and despite a lot
> of effort never resolved.

Let's change the meaning of this. There is nothing like a reproducible
testcase. Noone was ever able to fix this because it is not reproducible.
(No, the testcase is not: Build OOo with tcsh because that just doesn't
hang on all the systems that were accessible.

My money is still on some drivers/services, see the links in this snippet
from the cygwin ml with respect to a maybe related topic:

Quote from cygwin ml with respect to fork problems/hangs:
> It's crappy coding on the part of the Logitech module.  Ross Ridge gives
> a convincing argument for what's going on:
> <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=17999960>.  More
> info on the loader lock issue is in this paper:
> <http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/DLL_bestprac.mspx>.  Now if
> only someone could forward these clues to the idiots that wrote that
> Logitech crapware, it would save a whole lot of frustration.

> AFAIK the freeze occures somewhere in the
> win32 high precision timers. The ls /proc hack doesn't work reliably
> as it occasionally collides with the build process which gets aborted.
> I have a workstation that used to have this problem and building with
> bash fixes this. The build isntructions are out of date ..

Where? Except for the part that --with-use-shell=bash is not mentioned?

  Volker

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