Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

I looked at the differences and I think the problem is due to one of
them.  Yep, no doubt about it.  There's got to be a change in there
that's the cause of this problem.

HTH,

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