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Re: [Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:22:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin
- References: <OEEKLGEMJOIGCCPNCJPIOEAACCAA.toto@lge.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, toto<at>lge<dot>com wrote:
> [snip]
> But the progress bar didn't advance after that point, which shows
> /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh for 8 hours.
I couldn't help noticing the subject. Doesn't this poster know that the
halting problem is undecidable[*]? So we can't really help him/her.
Oops.
Igor
[*] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem>
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