20050823 and /proc/uptime [Was: please try latest snapshot]

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:18:56PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >We're heading into a cygwin 1.5.19 release so it is time for a thorough
> >testing of the latest snapshot.
> >
> >http://cygwin.com/
> 
> Urgh.  Make that:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> 
> Also please mention the date of the snapshot that you are doing in any
> reports.

Snapshot 20050823 19:00:09 is hanging on Win98 (I've been noticing this for a
week or more of previous snapshots, now, but don't know when the bug was
introduced).  Oftentimes I get a Windows popup claiming that cat has performed
an illegal operation, at which point the system is low on memory and can't spawn
any more processes, so I am forced to reboot.  This idiom is part of the
coreutils configure script.

$ cat /proc/uptime
284.85 0.00
$ cat < /proc/uptime
# no response after 10 minutes, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-D do nothing

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Eric Blake


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