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Re: Resource Temporarily Unavailable workaround
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 05:55:05PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:41:54PM +0000, Andrew STUBBS wrote:
>>>>The attached patch adds a 'retry' to the fork system call. Basically
>>>>it waits 10 seconds to allow the 'resource temporarily unavailable' to
>>>>become (temporarily) available once more, and tries again, up to a
>>>>maximum of three attempts.
>>>There is already a retry in the fork and spawn system calls. This
>>>technique has proved to be problematic since it can mask problems and
>>>you can end up with situations where a process starts successfully but
>>>cygwin thinks it fails and restarts the process again. For the exec
>>>case, there is also a problem with non-cygwin .exes.
>>>
>>>If you look for retry in the fork call you should see where this is
>>>supposed to be happening.
>>
>>Btw, it is likely that if you are seeing this problem that there is
>>something happening after the retry code in fork which is causing an
>>EAGAIN. The existing retry code could be expanded to take that into
>>account if that is the case.
>
>Thanks, now I see the retry, but the code is impossible to follow
>without knowing both Cygwin and Windows backwards, and I don't have
>that much time to spend on this. :(
>
>Clearly its retries aren't (always) sufficient. Perhaps it isn't
>retrying enough, or retrying the right stuff, or maybe not waiting long
>enough between retries.
Yes, that's why I typed the above "Btw," paragraph.
>Unfortunately the problem isn't easily reproducible. I can't use
>strace as it runs way too slowly and I would just never get to the
>problem. I could instrument the whole file up so that I can trace just
>that, and then sit back and wait.
>
>Any suggestions?
You could use printf's to find where it is failing.
But, really, that's a pretty obvious suggestion. I'm not sure what
suggestions you're looking for if you can't find the time to learn
anything more about Cygwin or Windows.
cgf