Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.8

[Kacper Michajlow <kasper93 at gmail dot com>]

2015-12-07 17:00 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> On Dec  7 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Dec  6 21:21, Kacper Michajlow wrote:
>> > 2015-12-06 19:57 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
>> > > Hi Cygwin friends and users,
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I released a new TEST version of Cygwin, 2.4.0-0.8.
>> > > [...]
>> > Since 2015-12-03 snapshot I got only black screen when running this batch script
>> > @echo off
>> > C:
>> > chdir C:\cygwin\bin
>> > zsh -l -i
>> >
>> > Basically it deadlocks while processing .zshrc. I was debugging this
>> > and it locks when loading "oh my zsh".
>> >
>> > Long story short is seems to hang here
>> > https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/lib/git.zsh#L177
>> > at least for the first time, because if I remove this line it hangs
>> > somewhere else. It basically hangs if in git_compare_version() is any
>> > kind of external command which cause fork.
>> >
>> > It works fine when running from mintty.
>>
>> Confirmed.  I have two different ways to fix this, but I'm not sure yet
>> which one is better.  I'll test them a bit and probably check one of
>> them in later today.
>
> I just uploaded a new developer snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> and I just announced a new test release 2.4.0-0.9,
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-12/msg00007.html, both of
> which come with a patch which should fix this issue.  It did for me, at
> least :}
>
> Please give any of them a try.

2.4.0-0.9 works fine. Thanks.

-Kacper

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