On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:07:23PM -0400, David A. Cobb wrote: >Getting tired of loading disks, I structured a local mirror of the >Debian directory structure and tried running Cygwin >dpkg-scanpackages. I expected it to take a while, so I wasn't >surprised - I just went and make some more coffee. But after 20 >minutes I suspected something was wrong and fired up ProcessExplorer. > Under my console bash I discovered: >+perl (OK, dpkg-scanpackeages is a big perl script I guess) >++dpkg-deb >++rm.exe <==== getting 98% of the CPU time and not making any >progress. Watching the handles display, I see an open handle on what >must be the first *.deb file found so I'm pretty sure of the "no >progress -= stuck!" diagnosis. > >Killed it all, ran my scan with the identical sh script in Debian >proper. It did, indeed, take a bit of time but it completed without a >hitch and /bin/rm never stayed long enough for me to see it: perl got >about 3 sec. CPU, dpkg-deb about 2, find about 2, everything else less >than 1.
Since Robert Collins is no longer actively involved with the Cygwin community, this package is now unmaintained. If no one wants to claim it within the next week or so, I'll probably remove it from the distribution. 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/
