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Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: Rajesh Balakrishnan <rajesh_balakrishnan at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:08:46 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Question for MaxB: Any hope for fixing the current setup hang?
- References: <20041222105601.66519.qmail@web50106.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Rajesh Balakrishnan wrote:
> Since postinstall seemed to be a candidate for the hang,
> I'm wondering if we could tap at the following code in script.cc
>
> In run(), there is an infinite wait
> WaitForSingleObject (pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
>
> Should we use a wait period like 60s?
> We could check the status & provide appropriate setup.log info?
> Does post-texmf.sh take the longest to complete?
the postinstall script for xorg-x11-fnts (and -f100, fscl and fcyr) takes
a long time too. I'm not sure if a slow machine with all fonts installed and
maybe some extra windows fonts can do it in 60 seconds. timeouts are always
a bad idea.
bye
ago
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