On 21 September 2015 Nick Kennedy wrote:

> I'm just running in a normal Cygwin session. The most likely BLODA culprit 
> would be Kaspersky Internet Security.
> I've also got Visual Studio and the Windows debugging toolkit installed, but 
> I don't think either of those are likely.

> Using gdb, the external process seems to get launched normally. The response 
> from `uname` is received, which is
> just one line of text. But then there seems to be an infinite loop within 
> ProcessUNIX.c in cmsysProcess_WaitForData
> (lines 1129-1130). This repeatedly calls kwsysProcessWaitForPipe which keeps 
> returning false and so the loop goes
> on. The underlying Windows function called seems to be 
> ntdll!ZwWaitForMultipleObjects.

> I've tried pausing Kaspersky which doesn't help. I'll also try uninstalling 
> it at some point.

I've now uninstalled Kaspersky, and the problem goes away. Reinstalling the 
latest version (KIS 2016) results in the
problem coming back.

So it looks like there's an issue between Kaspersky Internet Security and 
certain Cygwin functionality.

Nick


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