please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

Karl M karlm30@hotmail.com
Sun Jun 4 10:54:00 GMT 2006


Hi All...

Problem resolved with 6/4 (0517 GMT) snapshot.

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: "Karl M"
>Subject: Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot
>Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:52:55 -0700
>
>Hi All...
>
>I just tried the 5/29, 6/1, 6/2 and 6/3 (0724 GMT) snapshots on XP SP1 and 
>SP2.
>
>They all run on XP SP2. On XP SP1, only 5/29 and 6/1 run. The 6/2 and 6/3 
>snapshots momentarily flash a window and go away. If I launch them from a 
>CMD window (duplicating the commands from the cygwin.bat file, the "bash 
>--login -i" returns immediately with no error messages.
>
>Thanks,
>
>...Karl
>
>>From: Brian Dessent
>>Subject: Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot
>>Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:42:17 -0700
>>
>>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> > I've rewritten some of the pty/tty code in the latest snapshot to work
>> > around problems that Dave Korn raised.  Thanks to Dave for finding the
>> > problem and for his patch which would have made things work better.
>>
>>I still see the handle leak in the expect/dejagnu testcase that I posted
>>earlier.  And in fact now it's worse as ^C won't kill the testcase; it
>>just hangs after printing this:
>>
>>...
>>PASS: gcc.c-torture/compile/20000105-1.c (test for excess errors)
>>got a INT signal, interrupted by user
>>
>>                 === gcc Summary ===
>>
>># of expected passes            377
>>
>>If I manually kill the child expect.exe process then it un-hangs and
>>prints the following:
>>
>>parent: sync byte write: broken pipe
>>
>>(This is run from rxvt in case it matters.)
>>
>>Brian
>>
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