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Re: [cygcheck] produces repeated output - 6 times!
On 2009-05-04 14:44Z, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 3:25 AM:
>> On Apr 28 11:47, Julio Costa wrote:
>>> Bug in cygcheck? Or bug in user? :)
>>
>> Bug in user as far as the position of the -v option is concerned.
>
> I can reproduce it; some more details:
>
> - 'cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v' returns 127
> - it doesn't happen if run from cmd.exe
> - '/bin/ash.exe -v' from inside bash works just fine
>
> Isn't there a feature of Cygwin where it tries 5 or 6 times to restart
> Windows apps (such as cygcheck) if they fail in a certain way? That
> could explain the repeated output (i.e. cygcheck is trying to do the
> documented 'cygcheck [PROGRAM] -v' thing but there's a bug), but my
> search fu wasn't able to bring up any results.
Search for 'proc_retry' in the User's Guide.
Try setting
CYGWIN=proc_retry:1
to see whether that's what's happening in this case.
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