Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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 forgot I had that trace and accidentally deleted it. However, creating a new one is not difficult, so one is available at: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~peda/bashstrace.bz2 This one is created with "strace -o ..." as suggested by Igor. > I was thinking the same thing but AFAIK, ash doesn't have the pid > recycling problem. Don't know where ash comes into play, the script is executed by bash. I must have missed some other test case... Cheers, Peter -- 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/
