On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:11:44AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I'm not sure if this is a bug, or just weird behavior, but on the new
> >Cygwin the output of 'ps' shows all bash shells but the current one in the
> >'waiting for tty input' state (an 'I' in the first column).
>
> What's wrong with that? The current one is not waiting for input if it
> is running ps.
Well, there's nothing wrong with it per se, which is why I labeled it an
idiosyncrasy (sorry for the original spelling), and not a bug. However,
this is not the behavior it used to have before, and other Unixes don't
have it either... But if this is the way it should be, then fine, I can
live with that...
> >I also got a bash into a 'stopped' state (an 'S' in the first column of ps
> >output) by minimizing an xterm quickly, while bash is loading. This is
> >only possible to reproduce when cygwin1.dll is not yet loaded, so bash
> >waits for it. Sounds like some sort of a race condition... I'm not sure
> >how to debug this or provide any additional info.
>
> And I don't understand. How can you get xterm started without having
> cygwin1.dll loaded?
> cgf
Oops, sorry, you're right, of course... What I meant was that the only
way I could reproduce this was to unload all cygwin programs, and then
start a few xterms in quick succession and minimize them all. Then some
bash shells would stay in a "stopped" state. They may be waiting for some
other dll, for all I know, but as soon as even one bash is loaded, other
bash sessions initialize much too quickly for me to minimize the xterm and
reproduce the problem.
Igor
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