On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 03:37:32PM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:29:38AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012@07:56:32AM +0100, Denis Excoffier wrote: >>> >- in tcsh: several concurrent combinations of 'make -j 3', 'make', >>> > fg, Control-Z, bg, which has shown to make tcsh to expose '(badjob)' >>> > and the PC to hang sometimes. >>> >>> Are you saying that there *is* a problem with the current snapshot? Or >>> that you saw a problem with this in 1.7.11 or that you have always seen >>> a problem with this? >I'm saying that i'll try this sort of thing, since this failed >with the snapshot 20120314. I tried this morning, and definitely yes, >the '(badjob)' is rather easy to obtain, but now i know that this is >a (well known) tcsh problem (see BUGS in the tcsh distribution), and >has nothing to do with cygwin1.dll. When you finally kill the process >that tcsh has lost, everything returns in order. > >I also compiled GCC 4.7.0 successfully with no message. > >In any case, with this snapshot 20120321 16h UTC, i was not able to >make the PC hang (i tried it). In my opinion this is the best 1.7 we >have ever had.
Thanks for confirming and thanks for keeping the reports coming. I don't think I mentioned that *I think* that my recent changes should have made cygwin a little faster since I removed some synchronization points which might have caused occasional stalls in process creation. cgf -- 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
