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[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 19 13:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 18 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > [What an odd subject line]
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:23:32PM +0100, trefor.2.edwards@bt.com wrote:
> > >I have a very recent version of Cygwin and using the SIPP application.
> > >This calls nanosleep from within a thread.
> > 
> > "Very recent" is not a precise enough distinction for debugging
> > problems.
> > 
> > See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html .
> > 
> > >Effectively , every second, the application
> > >
> > >*         Creates a thread
> > >
> > >*         Calls nanosleep 9 times.
> > >
> > >*         Deletes the thread
> > >
> > >And every second, according to windows task manager, it one more handle
> > >is being used.  Eventually it runs out of resources and crashes.
> > 
> > Seems like a simple test case would show this.  Please provide one.
> 
> I think I know what's going on, but cgf is right, a simple testcase
> showing this behaviour would be helpful for testing.

Never mind, I created my own testcase.  My hunch was correct, the
per-thread timer handle didn't get closed when the thread exits.

I applied a patch, and I'll create new Cygwin snapshots for 32 and 64
bit today.  Pleas give them a try (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/).


Thanks,
Corinna

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