On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:28:13PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >I did trace this problem an it looks like a race in Cygwin but I may be >wrong. Here I am providing two backtraces from a debug session - the first >one shows what happens normally and the second one shows the hang:
I appreciate that you fired up gdb to look into the problem but Cygwin is a multi-threaded application. You need to look at all of the threads if you figure out a potential race. >P.S. While looking at this I noticed that Cygwin's wait family of >functions won't return 0 if WNOHANG is passed and no children are found >that match the wait criteria - JFYI. AFAICT, Cygwin returns 0 in a WNOHANG criteria, just like linux. If you have evidence to the contrary, a simple test case would be helpful. 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/
