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Cygwin CVS breaks PostgreSQL drop table
- To: Cygwin-Developers <cygwin-developers at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Cygwin CVS breaks PostgreSQL drop table
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:12:29 -0400
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
The following commit:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2001-q2/msg00276.html
causes PostgreSQL to hang when it tries to drop a table. Note that the
hang occurs on both NT 4.0 SP5 and 2000 SP1. I did not test on 9X/Me.
The specific part of the commit that causes the hang is:
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc.diff?cvsroot=uberbaum&r1=1.122&r2=1.123
which has the corresponding ChangeLog entry:
* syscalls.cc (_unlink): Reorganize to try harder to delete file with
DeleteFile and to recover more gracefully if FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE
doesn't work properly.
When I back out the this patch the hang is prevented.
I will try to dig some more and devise a patch (if I can), but I wanted
to at least give a heads up in the meantime.
Thanks,
Jason
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