1.5.1 issue?

[Nicholas Wourms]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>
>> It is not necessarily a non-problem.  If you can reproduce this
>> consistently, then it is a problem, either in make or cygwin.
> 
> 
> It is not consistent.  (is it ever? :-)

Make -j10 will probably be more useful, since running a threaded make is 
usually what triggers the issue for me.  I've also observed that the 
likelihood of creating what I call an "orphaned" process (when the 
parent returns but the child doesn't receive the proper SIG) happens to 
increase significantly as the average load increases.  While this is 
most prevalent in Make, I have seen it happen with shell scripts that 
call multiple, concurrent sub-shells.  Another observation is that this 
behavior seems to happen more frequently on Win9X boxes then on Win2k. 
What this means, I have no idea, but Chuck is right, it isn't consistent 
at all.  I'll try to grab an strace the next time I find a situation 
which does this.

Cheers,
Nicholas



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