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Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:17:47PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 25 April 2006 21:43, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
>
>> Ernie Coskrey wrote:
>>> it's possible that Jerry has found a scenario that causes this problem to
>>> occur. Maybe not, but if he can reproduce it it would be worth checking.
>>
>> I can reproduce the problem. That's not the issue. I cannot provide a
>> little test app to produce the problem at will.
>
> Since nobody else is reporting this problem, it seems pretty unlikely that
>anyone else is going to be able to do it for you.
>
>> As for the patch, that's useless - I'm not going to try to learn how to
>> build the Cygwin DLL.
>
> In that case the P clearly EBKAC.
>
>> However, if anyone can suggest some other
>> simple, non-labor-intensive method for gathering more data on this
>> problem, I'd be willing to give it a try.
>
> Sounds like your best bet is to sit there and do nothing. Yep, that's it.
>Thats's *bound* to get the bug fixed. Why, surely sooner or later someone
>else will have the same bug and fix it for you? All you have to do is just
>sit there and wait. If you get bored watching the tumbleweed roll past, you
>could always read
>
>http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
>
>to pass the time.
While I generally agree with the sentiment, in this case, I don't think
it would be productive to attempt a build of the DLL until I've verified
that I can't reproduce the problem with the supplied scripts.
And, I really don't think it's a good idea to start supposing reasons
for the hang yet unless someone wants to actually look at the
differences between the snapshots and propose a theory based on the
that.
cgf
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