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Re: 1.5.10: expr + configure failure + testcase (also on 1.5.11-1)
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 09:54:29PM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>The surprise is that the error message:
>"configure: error: invalid package name: extra-includes"
>is produced at time 29722848 by bash 2624 (the main script pid). This
>is BEFORE the second expr is exec'ed. This occurs only at time
>29725911 by a forked child 2656 of 2624 Following the output of the
>error message, 2624 proceeds to fork 2384, which apparently does
>nothing. 2624 then waits for 2656 and 2384 and exits.
>
>In other words the control flow seems to be seriously screwed up. It
>may be linked to the pid reuse problem in bash, but I know very little
>about it. Looking at the full trace available from Peter may help.
I was thinking the same thing but AFAIK, ash doesn't have the pid
recycling problem.
IIRC there is a problem with normal bash where it could be confused by
repeating pids even when the pids are separated by a large number. It
can even happen on linux.
I will create a snapshot with double the number of pids cached in
cygwin. This will cause the last 8 pids to be held from reuse by
windows.
Wasn't there a registry value that controlled how pids were allocated?
I can't find anything appropriate in google.
cgf
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