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RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot
- From: "Ernie Coskrey" <Ernie dot Coskrey at steeleye dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:37:46 -0400
- Subject: RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Jerry D. Hedden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot
>
>
> Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
> >I have a cron job (a bash script)
> >that runs every 6 minutes, polling and downloading info off the web.
> >
> >The problem is the script hangs at various places and the stuck
> >processes keep building up.
> >
> >Further, I have to kill these processes using the task monitor: kill
> >reports 'No such process'.
>
> Christopher Faylor replied:
> > As mentioned above, a test case showing the problem sure
> would be nifty.
>
> I agree and would have provided one if I could. However, I
> have no idea
> what is causing this, nor how to write a test case for it.
>
> As I said, it's a cron job running a bash script - nothing fancy. The
> hang does not happen on every invokation of the script, but it does
> occur frequently. Where in the script it gets stuck seems to be
> random: wget, mkdir, mv, date, diff, etc..
>
> > Also, knowing the first snapshot which shows the problem
> would be helpful.
>
> As I said, these sort of problems started after the
> 2006-03-09 snapshot.
> I double checked, and the problem does occur with the 2006-03-13
> snapshot.
>
>
I wonder if this might be related to the following:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg01062.html
The fix suggested in the original message - http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q2/msg00004.html - might help.
Ernie Coskrey
SteelEye Technology, Inc.
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