Re: Cygwin 1.7.25-1.7.28 - the perl process couldn't wake up after system call

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 4/7/2014 8:03 AM, Eduard wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> We run
>>      Cygwin 1.7.25-1.7.28 on Win7-64bit.
>>      perl version is v5.14.2.
>>
>> Sometimes during system call from perl we see the following error:
>> 0 [sig] perl 9852 stopped_or_terminated: couldn't wake up wait event
>> 0x110, Win32 error 6
>>
>> The process hangs and cannot be terminated by kill command. The only
>> way to kill process is with windows task manager.
>> Our tasks  require many system calls to complete

>> Please advise how to resolve this.

Eduard:

Please advise (off-list if too much data) how I could reproduce this problem.
I never stumbled on that.
Esp. the 64 bit version is much safer than the 32bit version.

> Is it any better or worse with Cygwin 1.7.29 that was just released?

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