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Re: [cygcheck] produces repeated output - 6 times!


On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:54:55AM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 10:44 AM:
>> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:35:46AM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>>> Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, May 04, 2009 10:18 AM:
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 03:11:02PM +0000, Greg Chicares wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Greg, for the pointer!
>>> 
>>>> If it is, then cygcheck would be exiting with a bad status and bash
>>>> would be causing cygcheck to restart.  You wouldn't see the problem
>>>> from the windows command line.
>>> 
>>> Aren't those the exact symptoms I described?
>> 
>> The "exact symptoms"?  No, in fact it was not.  I was clarifying what
>to
>> look for but I guess I should have said "Please try this from the
>> windows command line".
>
>Sorry, I did say:
>>>>>> - 'cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v' returns 127
>>>>>> - it doesn't happen if run from cmd.exe

Sorry I missed that.

>But I can be more exact:

>If I run 'cygcheck /bin/ash.exe -v' from inside cmd.exe, I only get one
>copy of the output.
>I didn't think to check this before, but %ERRORLEVEL% after running that
>is -1073741819 (I think that's the normal way to check return values in
>cmd.exe?).

The windows error code is what I was looking for but again I wasn't
being very clear.

That is a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, which would be a cygcheck bug.   Wish
I could duplicate it.

cgf

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