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Re: 1.7.7-1: tcsh occasionally hanging
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:07:35 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.7.7-1: tcsh occasionally hanging
- References: <4C90E715.7000900@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sep 15 11:32, Geo Pertea wrote:
> Since upgrading to cygwin 1.7 recently I have been experiencing
> sporadic failures of cygwin tcsh initialization: when opening new
> shell terminals (I start Cygwin using mintty.exe -e /bin/tcsh) they
> sometimes hang indefinitely. [...]
>
> if ( -r "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" ) then
> set f=`cat "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" | cut -f 1 -d \ ` >& /dev/null
> set f=`cat "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" | cut -f 1 -d \ | sed
> -e 's/,/ /g'` >& /dev/null
> set hosts=($hosts $f)
> endif
>
> I do have quite a large list of hosts in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file
> and I want to keep that way. However, in order to prevent tcsh from
> hanging I had to comment out the block above. Note that on the
> other, faster PC there was no need to do the same (even though the
> known_hosts file is about the same size), so my suspicion is that in
> tcsh with 1.7 there are some issues with pipe handling, perhaps a
> race condition somewhere that triggers more often on slower PCs.
I tried this a hundred times with a known_hosts file of 1800 entries,
and I couldn't reproduce it even once, sorry.
Corinna
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