On Sep 15 11:32, Geo Pertea wrote: > Since upgrading to cygwin 1.7 recently I have been experiencing > sporadic failures of cygwin tcsh initialization: when opening new > shell terminals (I start Cygwin using mintty.exe -e /bin/tcsh) they > sometimes hang indefinitely. [...] > > if ( -r "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" ) then > set f=`cat "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" | cut -f 1 -d \ ` >& /dev/null > set f=`cat "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" | cut -f 1 -d \ | sed > -e 's/,/ /g'` >& /dev/null > set hosts=($hosts $f) > endif > > I do have quite a large list of hosts in the ~/.ssh/known_hosts file > and I want to keep that way. However, in order to prevent tcsh from > hanging I had to comment out the block above. Note that on the > other, faster PC there was no need to do the same (even though the > known_hosts file is about the same size), so my suspicion is that in > tcsh with 1.7 there are some issues with pipe handling, perhaps a > race condition somewhere that triggers more often on slower PCs.
I tried this a hundred times with a known_hosts file of 1800 entries, and I couldn't reproduce it even once, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
