On 3/8/26 7:21 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
bash hangs when executing a very particular config.status script.
Repeat-By:
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./config.status
or
sh -x ./config.status 2>&1 | tee config.status.xlog
I cannot reproduce this on RHEL or macOS using both bash-5.2.37 and
bash-5.3.3. I don't have or use cygwin; I recommend you open a bug
report with the Cygwin developers.
I'm not a Cygwin developer but looked into this anyway, arriving at the attached
patch.
There's a TL;DR discussion of this patch starting at
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-October/258857.html
Here's the first bit (edited with hindsight):-
This only affects here documents over 64KB by 128 bytes or less.
The underlying cause is a bug in Windows which damages the build process.
Thanks for the investigation and the fix.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
