On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:54:29PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >The surprise is that the error message: >"configure: error: invalid package name: extra-includes" >is produced at time 29722848 by bash 2624 (the main script pid). This >is BEFORE the second expr is exec'ed. This occurs only at time >29725911 by a forked child 2656 of 2624 Following the output of the >error message, 2624 proceeds to fork 2384, which apparently does >nothing. 2624 then waits for 2656 and 2384 and exits. > >In other words the control flow seems to be seriously screwed up. It >may be linked to the pid reuse problem in bash, but I know very little >about it. Looking at the full trace available from Peter may help.
I was thinking the same thing but AFAIK, ash doesn't have the pid recycling problem. IIRC there is a problem with normal bash where it could be confused by repeating pids even when the pids are separated by a large number. It can even happen on linux. I will create a snapshot with double the number of pids cached in cygwin. This will cause the last 8 pids to be held from reuse by windows. Wasn't there a registry value that controlled how pids were allocated? I can't find anything appropriate in google. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
