Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>FWIW, I found ANOTHER race yesterday while running the cygwin test >>suite. So, it's back to square one for testing since it was in low >>level code which could affect everything. And, this race has been t

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-17 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: FWIW, I found ANOTHER race yesterday while running the cygwin test suite. So, it's back to square one for testing since it was in low level code which could affect everything. And, this race has been there since I screwed up in September 2001. Lovely. Well, I can't brea

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I don't see how it could be worthwhile since cygwin doesn't use posix > threads or even posix mutexes under the hood. Sorry for my stupidity. The tools are probably very OS specific anyway. Just trying to help. Oh well. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:36:56PM -0800, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >If you think it's worth it, I could take a stab at building it for you. I don't see how it could be worthwhile since cygwin doesn't use posix threads or even posix mutexes under the hood. -- Christopher Faylor Cygwin Project Leader

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Peter J. Stieber
> I wonder if there is a super-secret club out there somewhere that I can > now join having spent the last four months wrapping my head around > subtle multi-threaded race conditions. My wife has not quite picked up > on the fact that when I have a certain pained intense look on my face, > I'm rea

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:21:38PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now >>with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. >> >>I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my >>syst

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-15 Thread Rolf Campbell
Christopher Faylor wrote: I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my system set up but could anyone confirm or deny whether that this snapshot behav

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:33:33PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now >>with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. >Me too :-D it runs without error for 10h with 3300 iterations now. I've b

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

2004-03-13 Thread Volker Quetschke
Christopher Faylor wrote: I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. Me too :-D it runs without error for 10h with 3300 iterations now. I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my system set