I've been able to isolate a problem with csh on cygwin running on
Windows Server 2003 on a Xeon. The following script hangs after a
certain period of time ranging from a few minutes to a few hours.
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#!/bin/csh
while (1)
set year = `date +%y`
set month = `date +%m`
set day = `date +%d`
set hour = `date +%H`
set minute = `date +%M`
set second = `date +%S`
set stamp = "$year$month$day $hour : $minute : $second"
echo $stamp
sleep 2
end
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The equivalent script in bash doesn't hang even after a day or more.
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#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
echo $(date +%Y%m%d.%H%M%S)
sleep 2
done
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Has anyone else had problems with csh scripts on cygwin? Yes, I know
that some people don't recommend using csh (see "Csh programming
considered harmful",
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/), but I'm stuck
with a whole lot of csh scripts and don't have time to port them all
at the moment.
thanks,
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