My OS: Win XP Pro SP3 My XEmacs: 21.4.19 My original problem: - I had upgraded to the latest CygWin version 1.7.28 - XEmacs hangs at startup; because an xargs process hangs - Furthermore, xargs does not seem to work properly in the shell
At first I thought that XEmacs shouldn't invoke an xargs process at all at startup; but investigation showed: An xargs process IS invoked at XEmacs startup for ages ... So something had to be probably "im Argen (wrong)" with the latest xargs version. I then went back in time using the CygWin Time Machine; and installed the legacy version 1.7.7-1; and voila: Everything xargs-related seems to run like a charm again. My conclusion is: Somewhere between the legacy version 1.7.7-1 and the latest version 1.7.28, the behaviour of xargs has changed for the worse. Some further remark: I have gone back to the legacy version 1.7.7-1 by chance; of course I cannot try out each and every legacy version before the latest. -- 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
