On 2/19/2014 6:48 AM, Kai Tischler wrote:
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.
Does the following work (i.e. not hang) for you with 1.7.28?
find /bin -type f | xargs ls -l
This works fine for me with the cygwin package versions 1.7.25, 1.7.27, and
1.7.28. If that works for you too in 1.7.28 but you still see a problem
with xargs and XEmacs, then I would say there's an interaction issue there
somewhere.
--
Larry
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