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Re: YA in a series: snapshot what a happy sound
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:22:46 -0800
- Subject: Re: YA in a series: snapshot what a happy sound
- Organization: bs"d
- References: <20041222055040.GA823@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:50:40AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We're getting close to a 1.5.13 release, so I would appreciate
> it if people would send success or failure replies here. Please make
> sure that you report the version of Windows that you are using. That
> information is important for this change.
>
> One thing to note in recent snapshots is that the process handling code
> has changed dramatically. This part of cygwin should be
> ever-so-slightly faster than it was before. One point of possible
> regression would be in cygwin's handling of non-cygwin processes. So,
> keep your eye out for problems there, too, please.
I've tried the 20041225 snapshot and had a couple problems:
First, running non-cygwin programs has gotten very noisy. Note the
"Terminated" and "Signal 15":
$ cygcheck -c cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.12-1 OK
Terminated
$ sh -c 'cygcheck -c cygwin'
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.12-1 OK
Signal 15
Second, perl test are hanging at the termination of ext/io/t/io_sock.t
http://public.activestate.com/gsar/APC/perl-current/ext/IO/t/io_sock.t
Commenting out the @INC='../lib' line (so it runs even outside the
perl build directory) and running the test with the cygwin
distribution perl will hang at termination; the perl process no longer
appears in ps when it hangs, and the parent process (whether bash, sh,
or perl) is unresponsive to signals (except that a kill -9 makes
further kills report that the parent process no longer exists, though
it stays in the ps output).
Running the perl test from cmd.exe also hangs.
I will try to pare down the test file and see how much I can isolate
the problem, but wanted to give you a heads up. The previous snapshot
I tried was 20041218, and it did not have this problem.
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