Okay, after a little investigation, I have a little more info. First, I think
the 'Bad File Descriptor' errors are actually due to the hung process (sed,
gawk, etc) being killed. It's hard to tell because the parent process doesn't
flush its output buffer until after that, but I think it's probably from the
parent process using an invalid process or pipe handle when the child is
killed. So it's likely more symptom than cause.
I've also discovered that the cygwin hangs only seem to happen often when the
make is issued under perl. If I issue the exact same make from a bash prompt,
it generally succeeds. I'm using the perl construct:
open(CHILDOUT,"$cmd 2>&1 |");
while (<CHILDOUT>) {
{
print $fp ">>$_";
}
to read the output of the make line by line, process it, and log it. This
script has worked with a much older (circa 2002/2003) version of the cygwin
tools. Has anyone else seen any problems like this? I tried both perl 5.6.1
and 5.8.8 and they both behave exactly the same way with the latest and
previous version of the cygwin tools. For now I guess I'll just try piping the
output to a file and reading the whole thing after make exits. Does anyone
have any suggestions for futher debugging these hangs?
Thanks for any help!
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Schuff, Scott
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 3:54 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Getting 'Bad file descriptor' error with 1.5.24-2
Hi all -
I'm running a build of a fairly large/complex software project with Make, and
at random points the whole thing will hang just after printing the error:
/bin/sh: cannot duplicate fd 31 to fd 0: Bad file descriptor
Sometimes the leaf process is sed, sometimes gawk, sometimes sh, but in all
cases they are buried under a half dozen 'make's, and 'sh's.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to debug this? Is there any setting I can
change in windows or Cygwin to avoid it? I have tried some things like
increasing desktop heap, etc, but still see the problem.
Thanks in advance for any help.
-Scott
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