Very strange rxvt problem - game hangs when it is running

[Jonathan Arnold]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
> 
> 
>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>1] Run "Day of Defeat" - connects and runs just fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>2] Start rxvt.  Try "DoD" again. It gets about halfway through its
>>>>>>startup process, then hangs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>3] Quit rxvt and try again. "DoD" works fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I tried the same procedure with the regular Cygwin bash shell, and
>>>>>>it behaves the same way.
>>>>>>[snip]
>>>>>>Any ideas on what it could be?
>>>>>
>>>>>A WAG, and I may be really off on this: Cygwin uses TCP/IP sockets
>>>>>(which essentially require a TCP/IP port) to emulate Unix domain
>>>>>sockets.  If rxvt reserves a Unix domain socket (even if it's not
>>>>>using X), and DoD tries to access the same port, because it's
>>>>>somehow predefined and it expects it to be free, there could be a
>>>>>conflict.  I can't think of anything else in Cygwin that would
>>>>>interfere with a (presumably) non-Cygwin application.
>>>>
>>>>Well, unless the regular bash shell does it too, that probably isn't
>>>>correct. Like I said, it is very weird and it took me some time to
>>>>figure it out.
>>>
>>>The "regular bash" that you tried is really a login shell.  That *can*
>>>run X-related stuff, e.g., from /etc/profile.d scripts.  A real test would
>>>be to try a non-login bash (just run "c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -i" from a
>>>CMD prompt).  If that doesn't interfere with DoD, it would make my WAG
>>>more probable.  Otherwise we'll have to look for other possible reasons.
>>
>>Okay, I tried it this way too, and it still hangs DoD.  FWIW, running
>>MSYS (MinGW's bash), does not hang DoD.
>>
>>Very Odd.
> 
> 
> Yep.  Curiouser and curiouser...  Does *any* Cygwin process have that
> effect?  Try running "c:\cygwin\bin\sleep.exe 60" from a CMD prompt --
> does *that* make DoD hang?

Strangely enough, yes that too does make DoD hang.

How very very strange.

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Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org)
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  William H. Mauldin


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