Cygwin (1.7 -- 1.5 is useless due to non-existent locale/UTF-8 support, although 1.7 doesn't shine in that either) was up to just a few weeks ago in a completely unusable state, because fg was broken, in addition to the X server, which has been unreliable for a couple of months now, crashing every 5 minutes. Then an update a couple of weeks ago fixed fg, so Cygwin become somewhat usable through the putty cygterm. But X still could not be relied upon. Then a couple of days ago there was a new set of updates available, including some to X, so of course I tried them. X wasn't fixed... but GNU screen had been broken, making Cygwin again completely unusable, because screen is necessary with the primitive Windows window management. (Tabbed putty would help.)
The more specific problem is that GNU screen has started having random hangs, locking up the entire terminal. The hung screen sessions can not be reattached from a new terminal either; screen -r will just wait seemingly forever, although can be stopped with ^C. Even -list fails usually, although once I managed to get a list, but not attach anything, and -wipe removed everything. The hung screen process stayd there in the process listing.... Cygwin generally leaves a _lot_ of these zombies around, you have to do a manual clean-up at least once a week. -- Stop Gnomes and other pests! Purchase Windows today! http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2009/07/21/T17_26_09/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
