Curious behavior of CYGSERVER
David A. Cobb
superbiskit@cox.net
Sun Sep 15 11:33:00 GMT 2002
Conrad Scott wrote:
>"David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>>I discussed above (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00302.html)
>>
>>
>>my problems attempting to do a bootstrap of gcc-3.2. One experiment
>>involved firing up CYGSERVER. As mentioned in the previous thread, the program went much much much further this way -- make check took about 13 hours!
>>
>>
>I'm hoping that this is because `make check' did more work rather than
>cygserver somehow slowing down the process . . .
>
>
In fact, the process goes remarkably *faster* with cygserver running.
The make-check ran to completion (C, C++, Java, Obj-C). Ada didn't get
built for other reasons.
>>In the process, I notice two unexpected behaviors. The CYGSERVER emits
>>
>>
>>dots (.) on the screen every little while - perhaps it emits one
>>everytime it gets called. This isn't bad -- it makes a handy pulse to
>>be sure the machine hasn't just frozen up. Three screenshots are
>>attached fro the make check run.
>>
>>
>
>It's just being warm and cuddly, like Robert Collins mentioned: I've
>made it less friendly, as Nicholas Wourms mentioned :-)
>
>
>
>>What is really bad is that somehow, having CYGSERVER involved defeats
>>the stdout redirection. For example, the make check not only ran for
>>
>>
>13
>
>
>>hours, but it also gave me very little clue as to its success or
>>
>>
>failure.
>
>This I don't understand and cannot recreate any such problem. That is,
>with cygserver running, redirection of both stdout and stderr work fine
>in my little tests. Could you give more detail on exactly how stdout
>redirection is "defeated"?
>
I have my configure, make-bootstrap, make-check bundled in a single
"build.sh" script. If I do either:
$ source ./build.sh >build.log 2>&1; or
$ ./build.sh >build.log 2>&1
It goes merrily along but, when all is said and done, "build.log" don't
exist. Not even somehow misplaced - I searched my whole darn machine.
I also did a $ find ..... >found-files.txt and had the same result (no
output file)
>BTW, I'm running on win2k just now: which platform are you using?
>Perhaps the output of `cygcheck -s -v -r' would help matters here.
>
Win2000pro, everything up to latest release (no development stuff until
I can get some good builds).
>
>Also, as Nicholas mentioned, if you're using any version of cygserver
>other than the development one on the cygwin_daemon branch, you'll need
>to clean up its droppings after it's done otherwise everything runs very
>slowly: that is, remove the /tmp/cygdaemo socket file if you're not
>running cygserver anymore.
>
Thanks, I'll do that in future. I hadn't noticed. WAIT A MO', I
cleaned up /tmp yesterday before one run and the Windows exception came
back even with Cygserver active. Check my other thread about that.
>HTH,
>
>// Conrad
>
>
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software.
.
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