Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Ernie Coskrey Ernie.Coskrey@steeleye.com
Tue Apr 25 21:17:00 GMT 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:39 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:33:37PM -0400, Ernie Coskrey wrote:
> >Well, what I got from your message was that you were pretty sure that
> >your fix may have addressed the problem, but not 100% sure.  
> That's why
> >I posted this follow-up; it's possible that Jerry has found 
> a scenario
> >that causes this problem to occur.  Maybe not, but if he can 
> reproduce
> >it it would be worth checking.
> 
> There are all sorts of "cygwin hang" bug reports out there.  
> Since this
> is a problem that showed up in a particular snapshot and the problem
> that you are talking about was something that supposedly happened for
> any version of cygwin from 2003 to (at least) February 2006, 
> I don't see
> any reason to think that this is an issue since it would also 
> show up in
> a pre 2006-03-13 version of cygwin -- unless you have some 
> insight into
> the problem that I'm missing.
> 
> cgf
> 

Nope, no additional insight, just a hunch -- that apparently has turned out to be wrong. :-)

BTW, we're not seeing ANY hangs in the 1.5.20 snapshots; we'd reported a few in 1.5.19-4 and those all have been addressed.

Ernie

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