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RE: YA please test the latest snapshot
- From: Adam Dinwoodie <Adam dot Dinwoodie at metaswitch dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:00:48 +0000
- Subject: RE: YA please test the latest snapshot
- Deferred-delivery: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:00:00 +0000
- References: <20120818170539.GA8858@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've made some more signal-related fixes in the latest snapshot.
>
> I was able to duplicate a ping (but who knows if it THE ping problem)
> problem by running my script which kills a ping running in a while (1)
> loop under tcsh. I tweaked the test to use a system in Germany as the
> target which seemed to make it somewhat easier to cause a hang. That
> uncovered at least one problem and eventually exposed another,
> unrelated, longstanding problem which could have confused some programs
> which receive signals in quick succession. The second problem would
> have existed in all versions of Cygwin since ~2004.
>
> This snapshot should also fix the reported problem with SIGSTOP. It
> also has a fix for clipboard handling from Thomas Wolff.
>
> Feedback requested.
I have not been able to reproduce the ping issue I previously reported.
Thank you!
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