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Re: B20: hang on pipe to grep


Earnie Boyd wrote:

> ---Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> >
> > > The following causes B20 to hang on my WINNT box.  It may run for a
> > > while before hanging:
>
> How _LONG_ is _a_while_?

Anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes.  It happens everytime while
reading in my .bashrc, which usually takes less than 10 seconds to load (and
no I don't have an endless while in my init file--just a bunch of greps).

> I've run it on NT 3.51 for about 15 minutes without it hanging, I
> finally C-c the process.
>
> uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-3.51 BCMHCF01 20.0 (0.1/1/1) -11-8 11:59:08 i586 unknown

I'm running on WINNT 4.0 SP 3 (CYGWIN_NT-4.0 20.0 i686 unknown).

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