On Feb 29 09:51, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 27/02/2012 7:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >I've just uploaded a new snapshot "2012-02-27 12:04:23 UTC". It > >contains two code snippets which are supposed to help diagnosing BLODA > >problems. > > > >If you set the environment variable CYGWIN to "detect_bloda" and then > >start a Cygwin process (bash or so), then Cygwin will detect two types > >of anomalies: > >[...] > Would it be a good idea to update the FAQ's bloda entry with this > info? Sure, it's probably going to give occasional false positives > and/or negatives, but it would definitely catch the obvious cases > and give a quick test for claims of bloda-free systems. You'd almost > want a new cygcheck -b option that could fork off a process or two > with detect_bloda active and capture any output that results.
Of course I will document this at one point. So far I just didn't. I doubt that the cygcheck -b would be useful, though. Just call $ export CYGWIN=detect_bloda some_executable and you get what you want. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
