On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Volker Quetschke wrote: >> OK, here is the full version: >> <http://www.scytek.de/strace_with_hang_snap20051024.tar.bz2> >> >> It contains the usual cygcheck and ps output plus: >> >> strace.log_while - the strace file until it hangs >> strace.log - the complete strace including the previous part. >> >> It hangs/waits in "dmake 2436 talktome: pid 632 wants some information" > >I found something funny in the strace. dmake *and* tcsh are waiting >on something: > >186919618 187255700 [sig] dmake 2436 talktome: pid 632 wants some information > >and later in the file: > >186869833 187019671 [sig] tcsh 2724 talktome: pid 632 wants some information > >Plus some more "talktome: pid 632 wants some information" lines later. Not >really >knowing what's going on here I would speculate that they are coming from some > wait(&status); >command. (At least that's most propably the place where it's "hanging" in >dmake).
No, talktome has nothing to do with wait. That's the interface which is called when (among other things) you look at things in /proc. 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/