Re: Hang with 20051018 (3rd version) snapshot while building OOo

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
>Volker Quetschke wrote:
>> OK, here is the full version:
>>  <http://www.scytek.de/strace_with_hang_snap20051024.tar.bz2>
>> 
>> It contains the usual cygcheck and ps output plus:
>> 
>>   strace.log_while  - the strace file until it hangs
>>   strace.log        - the complete strace including the previous part.
>> 
>> It hangs/waits in "dmake 2436 talktome: pid 632 wants some information"
>
>I found something funny in the strace. dmake *and* tcsh are waiting
>on something:
>
>186919618 187255700 [sig] dmake 2436 talktome: pid 632 wants some information
>
>and later in the file:
>
>186869833 187019671 [sig] tcsh 2724 talktome: pid 632 wants some information
>
>Plus some more "talktome: pid 632 wants some information" lines later. Not really
>knowing what's going on here I would speculate that they are coming from some
>  wait(&status);
>command. (At least that's most propably the place where it's "hanging" in
>dmake).

No, talktome has nothing to do with wait.  That's the interface which is
called when (among other things) you look at things in /proc.

cgf

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