Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling

[Karl M]

Hi Corinna...

>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Subject: Re: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling
>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:12:58 +0200
>
>On Jul  9 07:52, Karl M wrote:
> > Hi All...
> >
> > >From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo
> > >handling
> > >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:55:47 -0400
> > >
> > >I've checked in a fairly major change to cygwin today.
> > >[...]
> > I tried out the July 8, 2007 snapshot cygwin1.dll and had the following
> > issue (I replaced just the cygwin1.dll file).
> >
> > I typed ssh localhost and got as far as the login banner and then it 
>hung
> > there. The bash process started by sshd was consuming all avaliable CPU. 
>I
> > got the same result if I used ssh to login from another machine. When I
> > tried two simultaneous ssh connections, the created bash processes 
>seemed
> > to share the CPU equally (by observing them in the taks manager). I use 
>ssh
> > agent forwarding in case that is relevant.
>
>Did you run this as administrative user or as normal, non-privileged
>user?  I fixed a problem in current CVS which might be the actual cause
>of this hang, and which has nothing to do with cgf's pipe changes.  I
>found this while looking for an entirely unrelated problem, when trying
>to login as non-privileged user resulted in a hang the same way you
>describe it above.
>
>My patch solved the hang for me, but it might be something different in
>your case.  Please test with the next snapshot again.
>
I still see the same hang with the 20070714 snapshot. I am running as an 
unpriveleged user when I ssh in.

Thanks,

...Karl

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