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From:	Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT myrealbox DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Bash wait indefinitely
Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:13:45 -0500
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news.gmane.org wrote:

> I'm running in concurrences 5 complex bash batch, and sometimes (2 times on
> 3) one or more (very rarely) batch stop to do something. I've put a lot of
> trace to see where is the problem, but seems rarely arrived at the same line
> of code.
> 
> I've also tried to use strace tool, but strace hang rapidly.
> 

For the last few weeks I've been experiencing the same, and the 
offenders always seem to be either bash (not ash) or make.  It is 
important to note that I track cygwin's CVS head, so I had chalked it up 
to the on-going signal work.  I've found that running deep `make`s or 
running the autotools in succession (such as in the case of triggering 
the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE routines) often triggers this problem for me on 
my Dual Athlon MP 2400+ Win2K box :-(.  I've been extremely busy working 
on other things, I just grumble, kill the deadlocked process and its 
children, then restart the parent.  Attempting to debug gdb/strace, as 
you've discovered, is quite fruitless.

Cheers,
Nicholas



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