Bug found, new snapshot generated so still - testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed Sep 14 02:39:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:12:16PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>Potential types of problems in today's snapshot would be processes which
>>seem to exit but don't really or processes which hang when they are
>>supposed to be exiting.  You may need to do a "ps -W" to see if
>>processes are still hanging around.
>
>While running the libtool test suite, I found that some other rxvt/bash 
>windows refused to exit. ("logout" was printed, and then...nothing)
>
>This was followed almost immediately over in the window that was running 
>the testsuite, by the appearance of a number of the dreaded
>   tests/defs: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>messages.  (Then tests failed, then the testsuite process ended).
>
>After the testsuite was done (freeing up a lot of process 'slots'?) my 
>recalcitrant windows in which I had exited finally went away.
>
>
>>If you think you've found an error, please indicate whether this is a
>>regression from 1.5.18.
>
>This is a regression from 1.5.18.

I assume that you're running the 2005-09-13 snapshot.

Can you tell me if it is a regression from 2005-09-12?

cgf

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