Intermittent failures with ctrl-c

[Tom Honermann]

On 01/23/2013 12:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:20:20PM -0500, Tom Honermann wrote:
>> However, just as I was about to give up testing, I hit one more new
>> issue.  One of the ctrl-c events sent bash into what appeared to be an
>> infinite loop emitting error messages like these:
>>
>> 11408974 [unknown (0x144C)] bash 1752 exception::handle: Error while
>> dumping state (probably corrupted stack)
>> 11411584 [unknown (0x144C)] bash 1752 exception::handle: Error while
>> dumping state (probably corrupted stack)
>>
>> While this was going on, hitting ctrl-c had no discernible effect.  I
>> resorted to killing the process via task manager.
>>
>> This only occurred once, I wasn't able to get it to happen again.
>
> Was there a stackdump?

Unfortunately no.  And I should have grabbed a stack trace, but I didn't.

I tried to reproduce again today using the same snapshot (20130123), but 
didn't have any luck.

I see you checked in a change to detect the infinite recursion.  I'd 
call that good enough.

I didn't encounter any further anomalies that I can positively attribute 
to Cygwin.  I did encounter a few that I suspect are cmd.exe issues that 
I'll report below.  I'm only reporting these for the curious, I am not 
requesting any action be taken with regard to these.

1) Some times a ctrl-C was ignored.  I would see ^C echoed to the 
console, but the test case would keep running without prompting to 
"Terminate batch job".

2) Some times cmd.exe would issue an error message about a syntax error 
in the .bat file following pressing ctrl-C and all processes would exit 
without prompting to "Terminate batch job".

Thank you for your prompt attention to all of these issues Chris!  I 
find it very impressive how responsive the Cygwin maintainers are to 
reports like these!

Tom.


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