-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: |> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the | postinstall |> always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places.
Sounds like the classic symptoms of http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA | | I am still having this problem (as evidenced by previous messages). | I've come up with a bash script "test case" that demonstrates the | problem: | | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo $NUM; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done | | will run indefinitely, because it doesn't fork | | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done | | Hangs pretty quickly, because it forks a huge number of processes, and each fork is likely to be tripped up by a BLODA - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfxmIAACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDrnQCg013LdKdLJLYMqGQrqHtSbNBc HoUAnRVx0TOC0VpOLmK26SUtJ3NCWXrz =Y5d3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
