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RE: [cygcheck] produces repeated output - 6 times!
Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 10:18 AM:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:11:02PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
>> On 2009-05-04 14:44Z, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 3:25 AM:
>>>> On Apr 28 11:47, Julio Costa wrote:
>>>>> Bug in cygcheck? Or bug in user? :)
>>>>
>>>> Bug in user as far as the position of the -v option is concerned.
>>>
>>> I can reproduce it; some more details:
>>>
>>> - 'cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v' returns 127
>>> - it doesn't happen if run from cmd.exe
>>> - '/bin/ash.exe -v' from inside bash works just fine
>>>
>>> Isn't there a feature of Cygwin where it tries 5 or 6 times to
restart
>>> Windows apps (such as cygcheck) if they fail in a certain way? That
>>> could explain the repeated output (i.e. cygcheck is trying to do the
>>> documented 'cygcheck [PROGRAM] -v' thing but there's a bug), but my
>>> search fu wasn't able to bring up any results.
>>
>> Search for 'proc_retry' in the User's Guide.
>>
>> Try setting
>> CYGWIN=proc_retry:1
>> to see whether that's what's happening in this case.
Thanks, Greg, for the pointer!
> If it is, then cygcheck would be exiting with a bad status and bash
> would be causing cygcheck to restart. You wouldn't see the problem
from
> the windows command line.
Aren't those the exact symptoms I described?
> cygcheck itself would not be redoing anything because 1) it isn't a
true
> cygwin program and 2) it isn't starting a process when it displays dll
> information.
Unfortunately, unless I'm doing something wrong, it isn't due to
proc_retry:
thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~
$ echo $CYGWIN
thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~
$ cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v
C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\ash.exe
C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
<5 more copies of the DLL info>
thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~
$ export CYGWIN=proc_retry:1
thrall@pc1163-8413-xp ~
$ cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v
C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\ash.exe
C:\cygwin_1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
<5 more copies of the DLL info>
Oh well, at least I learned something :)
--
Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan.thrall@flightsafety.com
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