Re: cygserver 1.5.25-15 slows down logoff

[Sybille Ebert <sybille dot ebert at gmx dot net>]

>>>> The problem also appears in sshd service, eventhough it does not depend
>>>> on cygserver. I installed sshd using ssh-host-config and manually
>>>> stopped cygserver. And even with only sshd running, there was still a
>>>> long delay at logoff/shutdown!
>>> Which shows that the delay isn't cygserver specific, but occurs in the
>>> cygwin DLL somehow.  I'm somewhat low on time right now but I'll look
>>> into this at one point. 
>> Thank you. Please let me know if I could be of any assistance.
>>
>>
>>> For a start, can you make absolutely sure that this effect isn't related
>>> to some third party product?  Did you try to find if there's some
>>> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA interferring badly on that machine?
>>> See also http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
>> I've eliminated as much external factors as I possibly could. Nothing
>> from the list applies to me. I can reproduce the problem on a clean
>> install of Windows 2003 SP2 64-bit on VMWare Workstation.
> 
> I can reproduce it, too.  However, I can not reproduce it on Windows
> Server 2008 x64 so it seems a problem of the NT 5.2 kernel alone.
> I tried debugging and changed a couple of places in the DLL as well
> as in cygrunsrv trying to track it down.  The hang does not occur in
> Cygwin code, afaics, but in OS code and changing related parts of the
> custom console handling doesn't change anything.  That's all I can do
> for now, sorry.

Could you explain the interaction between Cygwin and OS in the related
part? I would like to have a look at it, but I need some directions.

S

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