1.5.24: shell commands randomly skipped

[Nicolas Joyard]

> AFAIK this is a 'prescott' Pentium 4 Multithreaded CPU.
>
> There's been a lot of discussion recently about Cygwin and
> dual-core/MT-core CPUs.  I have one and often have these kind of
> problems, usually during building libtool-based packages, which is
> bash-intensive.
>
> Unfortunately nobody has found a solution yet.  I hope that someone with
> the knowledge to do so will take this seriously in the near future, as
> it seems to affect more and more people.

Thanks for your answer. It seems that forcing the affinity of the
first bash process to only one CPU solves this issue.

-- 
Nicolas JOYARD

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