Greetings, During testing of the Perl MCE 1.608 module (uses flock), the examples scripts hang. Downgrading the base Cygwin package from 2.3.0-1 to 2.2.1-1 resolves the issue.
Installation is not required if a Cygwin developer desires to test file locking via the Perl MCE module. https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MA/MARIOROY/MCE-1.608.tar.gz 1. extract tar file 2. cd MCE-1.608/examples 3. perl foreach.pl 10 Hangs with Cygwin 2.3.0-1 Successful with Cygwin 2.2.1-1 The upcoming Perl MCE 1.7 release does away with file locking and works with 2.3.0-1. The next commit into GitHub (in a day or two) will contain optimizations allowing Perl MCE on Windows and Cygwin to run at full speed with lesser overhead. Best regards, Mario p.s. Thank you for Cygwin -- 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
