Please send questions regarding Cygwin to the cygwin mailing list. There you will get the expertise of the whole community rather than that of just one individual. Also, replies can be archived for others to search in the future. As such, I have redirected the discussion there. Thanks.
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, John Reif wrote: > Brian- > > I saw your posts on a mailing list regarding bash hanging under cygwin > waiting for zwClose, I have been experiencing the same problem on a 2 way > xeon system where bash processes hang sometimes. Did you get any > resolution to this problem? I am running with the most current version of > cygwin dll. Thanks for the help! No. I spent a good deal of time trying to investigate. All indications are that it is due to a Windows bug with inheritance of anonymous pipes. I've heard that using DisconnectNamedPipe together with named pipes might be a workaround, but I have not tried it. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
