From:	TYann AT vet DOT com DOT au (Trevor Yann)
Subject:	Problems with 980916 winsup under Windows 98
17 Sep 1998 04:46:55 -0700 :
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I am still having a bit of trouble with the 980916 winsup (and the 980914
version). I have included some additional information below to explain the
problems to developer's mailing list.

I am running Windows 98 on a Pentium machine, with egcs 1.02 and binutils
2.9.1. The problems below occur with either ash or bash installed as /bin/sh.


Whilst doing a configure I got the following messages. Several times during
the display of the messages the pc hung for a while (maybe a minute). When
the machine was hung I could move the mouse pointer around, but otherwise
the machine did not respond at all. 

checking for working const... yes
[main] D:\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386-CYGWIN32\BIN\SH.EXE 1003 (0) sig_send:
sig_send: wai
t for sig_complete event failed, sig -3, rc 258, error 6
[main] SH 1003 (60) sig_send: sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed,
sig
-3, rc 258, error 6
[main] SH 1003 (60) sig_send: sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed,
sig
-3, rc 258, error 6
[main] SH 1003 (60) sig_send: sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed,
sig
-3, rc 258, error 6
[main] SH 1003 (60) sig_send: sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed,
sig
-3, rc 258, error 6
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR...



I had further trouble doing a configure, and the attached script is the
reduced version of the file that causes the error to occur. I saw the
following messages:

BASH.EXE-2.02$ ./crash
[main] D:\CYGNUS\B19\H-I386-CYGWIN32\BIN\SH.EXE 1007 (0) _read:
WaitForMultipleO
bjects failed, error 87
[main] SH 1007 (0) _read: couldn't decommit stack memory 0x2C(4194304) for
read
of /dev/piper, error 6
cygwin: Fatal problem in read/write thread

[main] SH 1007 (0) _read: WaitForMultipleObjects failed, error 87
[main] SH 1007 (0) _read: couldn't decommit stack memory
0x10600000(33583104) fo
r read of /dev/piper, error 6
cygwin: Fatal problem in read/write thread

BASH.EXE-2.02$


These problems occur often enough to make the system unusable. The 980812
winsup snapshot was stable enough for me to be able to configure + build
egcs, but the current snapshot is no good.

I do not have access to a Windows 95 machine to test, but I would not be
surprised if similar problems occurred.

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#! /bin/sh

echo | a=`echo | echo blah` > file1

cat > ./file2 <<EOF
`echo | echo blah`
EOF

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