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Re: cygwin 1.3.3-2 hangs on semaphore somewhere in NTDLL.DLL


On Monday 15 Oct 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:38:42PM +0100, Robert Bogomip wrote:
> >  $ uname -a
> >  CYGWIN_NT-5.0 MACH 1.3.3(0.46/3/2) 2001-09-12 23:54 i686 unknown
> >
> >Right then. On my Win2000 (service pack 2) machine I've got two CPUs (733
> >Coppermines). Thus I often do "make -j 3" for fast builds. Unfortunately,
> >make often hangs on 1.3.3-2.  This appears to be a bug of 1.3.3-2 (i.e.,
> >it has always worked/continues to work with previous cygwin dll releases).
> 
> This problem was mentioned in the release announcement.

Do you mean this?

On Wednesday 12 Sep 01, Christopher Faylor writes:
> *** Known bugs:
> 
> - There is a very sporadic core-dumping situation that seems to be
>   best triggered by recursive makes.  We have not been able to track
>   down the cause of this problem after more than two weeks of trying.  So,
>   since it has been proven to be very rare, I'm releasing 1.3.3 with this
>   known problem.  If you can provide any insight on why this is happening
>   please send email with lots and lots of details to cygwin@cygwin.com.
>   "Hey!  It dies for me too!" emails will not be helpful unless you provide
>   either an exhaustive amount of detail (stack trace, easily reproducible
>   test case, patch).  (Christopher Faylor)

This mentions a core-dump, Robert describes a hang.  Shall I add this
to the "relnotes" part of the FAQ, in the "known bugs" section?

David


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