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RE: The allegation is that setup is keeping open handles around...


> ...is it true?  It seems like there are some valid concerns about
> problems with setup.exe in the cygwin mailing list and no one is
> addressing them.
> 
> Setup.exe is too important a piece of the cygwin release for it to
> go unsupported.  Please, someone (Max?) respond to and, if possible,
> investigate claims of problems.

I'll confirm that.  I was preparing for a reinstall, so I had
all packages downloaded.  During the install:

  - The open handle count for setup.exe was 74 while it was
    running it's md5 checks.

  - Maybe a quarter of the way through the install (up to
    gcc in a full install), there were over 200 open handles.
    Almost all of them were associated with the tar.bz2 files
    for the packages, ex:

  148: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\antiword\antiword-0.34-2.tar.bz2
  14c: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\apr\apr-0.9.5_2.0.52-1.tar.bz2
  150: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\apache\apache-1.3.29-2.tar.bz2
  154: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\apr-util\apr-util-0.9.5_2.0.52-1.tar.bz2
  158: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\ash\ash-20040127-1.tar.bz2
  15c: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\aspell\aspell-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2
  160: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\aspell\aspell-de\aspell-de-0.50.2-1.tar.bz2
  164: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\aspell\aspell-dev\aspell-dev-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2
  168: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\aspell\aspell-doc\aspell-doc-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2
  16c: File          C:\Program Files\Cygwin Setup\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.mcs.anl.gov%2fpub%2fcygwin.com\release\aspell\aspell-en\aspell-en-0.51.0-1.tar.bz2

  So it looks like the package files aren't being closed
somewhere.

-Samrobb




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