From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor) Subject: Re: Good news (sorta) on the Win 95 freeze problem 14 May 1998 08:25:54 -0700 Message-ID: <199805141456.KAA01407.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@kramden.cygnus.com> To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com, noer AT cygnus DOT com Could you send me an strace displaying this? It doesn't sound like the same problem to me. It is certainly a Windows 95 problem too, if we are getting a blue screen of death, but I guess that doesn't really matter. cgf >From: Geoffrey Noer >Subject: Good news (sorta) on the Win 95 freeze problem > >Here's some sorta good news on the Win 95 freezing on control-C's >problem where hitting control-Cs in rapid succession will cause the >Win 95 kernel to hang and necessitate a reboot. > >The sorta good news is that it is present under Windows NT as well >(it's much harder to trigger, but typing ls -l and then hitting >control-C a couple of times in quick succession will do the trick). > >I like this because: > >1) The bug should be much easier to track down since we don't have to >cope with the blue screen of death in NT. > >2) The bug is almost certainly our fault. It would have really >sucked if it had turned out to be a Win 95 kernel bug. > >It is present in the latest development winsup sources snapshot. >Looks like it's probably a deadlock in the signal handling code???