Hi,
I've discovered that pressing Ctrl-C in a Cygwin ssh session running the
following command can cause a deadlock:
$ while python -c ''; do :; done
The exact native application doesn't matter here, e.g. "ping -n 1
localhost >/dev/null" instead of "python -c ''" also "works".
The deadlock is most easily triggered when CPU is fully loaded. It takes
no more than 20 tries on my machine to hit it (and when I first saw it,
it was on the first try).
When the deadlock is triggered, there are conhost.exe and
cygwin-console-helper.exe processes, but there is no python.
The exact process tree varies depending on Cygwin version. With the
vanilla 3.3.4 (the root is bash spawned by sshd):
bash---bash-+-conhost.exe
`-cygwin-console-helper.exe
With 20220301 snapshot
(https://cygwin.com/snapshots/x86/cygwin1-20220301.dll.xz), I get one of
the two following trees with an extra conhost.exe process:
bash---bash-+-conhost.exe
|-conhost.exe
`-cygwin-console-helper.exe
or
bash---bash-+-conhost.exe
| `-cygwin-console-helper.exe
`-conhost.exe
I was testing with 32-bit Cygwin on x64 Windows 10 21H2.
Thanks,
Alexey
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