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Re: cygwin 1.5.20 and stalling cygstart
- From: "Demmer, Thomas" <TDemmer at krafteurope dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:58:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.20 and stalling cygstart
>On Jul 18 03:46, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>> >>WJFFM. I don't see any cygstart processes after running foo or after
>> >>calling the perl script directly on the cmd-line.
>> >
>> >Same here.
>>
>> Even simpler:
>>
>> perl -e 'exec "cygstart notepad"'
>>
>> in Windows command line.
>
>Nope, not here.
>
>
>Corinna
I can confirm Krzystof's behavior. On a DOS cmd (no bash!) line this stalls
cygstart.
After a while it actually eats up 100% CPU. I have never tried something
like that
before, invoking cygstart from a cmd window so I cannot tell if this is new.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 KFIDEMUC312022 1.5.21s(0.156/4/2) 20060707 11:45:39 i686
Cygwin
$ echo $CYGWIN
binmode ntsec smbntsec tty server
>From Start/Run I get the same behavior.
>From a bash console window it works as expected.
Anything else to try?
Ciao
Tom
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