Postinstall hangs with bash

[Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)]

> From: Igor Pechtchanski

> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote:

<snip>
> FWIW, if you're able to reproduce the hang, I'd be very interested in
> seeing the results of the experiments outlined in the above message on
> your machine...  Maybe you could glean something from the strace output as
> well.

$ for i in myPostinstall.sh.done  myPostinstall2.sh.done
myPostinstall3.sh.done; do echo -e "\n---" $i "---";cat $i;done

--- myPostinstall.sh.done ---
#!/bin/bash -x
echo "$(cygpath -w /)"

--- myPostinstall2.sh.done ---
#!/bin/sh -x
bash -c "echo $(cygpath -w /)"

--- myPostinstall3.sh.done ---
#!/bin/sh -x
strace -o postinstall.strace bash -c "echo $(cygpath -w /)"


myPostinstall.sh does the "hang". (i.e. the first of your tests). The other
two tests works just fine <SIGH> ;-)
I've attached /postinstall.strace  (name as it actually was created)

$ tail -15 /var/log/setup.log.full
2003/10/01 15:58:59 running: C:\Program\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/myPostinstall.sh
++ cygpath -w /
+ echo ''

2003/10/01 15:59:15 running: C:\Program\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/myPostinstall2.sh
+ cygpath -w /
+ bash -c echo C:\Program\cygwin
C:Programcygwin
2003/10/01 15:59:15 running: C:\Program\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/myPostinstall3.sh
+ cygpath -w /
+ strace -o postinstall.strace bash -c echo C:\Program\cygwin
C:Programcygwin
2003/10/01 15:59:16 error: Unable to remove temporary file
'/var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02224'
2003/10/01 15:59:22 mbox note: Nothing needed to be installed
2003/10/01 15:59:23 Ending cygwin install

$ cat /var/log/setup.log.postinstallXa02224
+ cygpath -w /
+ strace -o postinstall.strace bash -c echo C:\Program\cygwin
C:Programcygwin


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E
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