On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:44:46PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: >Cristopher Faylor wrote: >>David Dindorp wrote: >>>Bash seems to think that it's child has terminated prematurely. >>>Has anyone experienced something similar? >>> >>>Evidence: See the order of execution in the script below, >>>compare with what bash does (further below). >> >>>Version: snapshot 20050226 / bash 3.0. >> > >[...] > >>It's difficult to see how this could be an actual run >>of the above script. > >I snipped irrelevant parts of the output, eg. long paths. >(FYI, the original log file is ~ 341.000 lines of output.) > >[...] > >>What happened to the leading slash? > >Busted! Damn... > >[...] > >>FWIW, when I try this, everything works as expected. It's difficult >>to see how this could be executed out of order unless your tar >>and/or sleep are not standard cygwin programs. > >It does work 90% of the time. >Under Cygwin 1.5.10, the problem is also there, and *MUCH* worse. > >tar.exe, gzip.exe and sleep.exe are from *cough* 1.5.10 *cough*. >I was told that it doesn't matter as long as the Cygwin DLL >is a fresh nightly. I'll replace them with 1.5.12-1's and catch >the error again (prolly in a couple of days or so) if that's >better?
There is no such thing as a "1.5.12-1 version" of tar. You asked what you could do to report problems. Being precise is one thing you could do. You could also provide cygcheck output as is suggested by http://cygwin.com/problems.html . Also, providing simple test cases which reproduce the problem would help. I just wasted some time trying to reproduce your environment since I assumed that you'd provided a script which could easily reproduce the problem and that this was a problem which was specific to the snapshot. Apparently that is not the case. Anyway, this sounds a lot like the bash problem which has been discussed here over the last several months (most heavily in the October time frame). If you aren't running bash-2.05b-17 then that's probably your problem. 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/
