Race condition hangs on multiple mintty/tcsh? Brad Wetmore

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Tue Aug 11 10:02:00 GMT 2020


On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 11:37:58 +0200
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 11 13:59, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 15:31:24 +0200
> > Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > > Am 06.08.2020 um 13:46 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> > > > Am 06.08.2020 um 01:23 schrieb Kevin Schnitzius via Cygwin:
> > > >> On Wednesday, August 5, 2020, 06:56:48 PM EDT, Thomas Wolff 
> > > >> <towo@towo.net> wrote:
> > > >>> Am 04.08.2020 um 12:02 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
> > > >>>> Am 04.08.2020 um 00:13 schrieb Brad Wetmore via Cygwin:
> > > >>>>> Hi,
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> I generally kick off multiple (10) mintty sessions, and place them
> > > >>>>> around the screen.
> > > >>>>> [...]
> > > > I could reproduce one case of one of three terminals being 
> > > > unresponsive also with xterm.
> > > And it also happens if I drop select() from mintty (and use just 
> > > non-blocking read()).
> > > > Does anybody familiar with pty/select or recent changes have any idea?
> > 
> > I looked into this problem. After much struggle, I think
> > I have found a workaround for this issue.
> > 
> > I am not sure why this solves the issue at all, however,
> > this works for me.
> > 
> > Could you please test a patch attached?
> 
> Shall I commit the patch and create a developer snapshot for testing?

Thanks so much. That would be more convenient for potential testers.

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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>


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