Signal handling problem in 1.5.7 ? - Was: Re: Program randomly hangs.....

[Volker Quetschke]

Hi Michael,

thanks for the testcase, another thing to try for this evening.

Volker

Michael Haubenwallner wrote:

>  > As for "processes" thats another issue altogether.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as i've not found a question for a not so huge test-case,
> here's a smaller one, hoping to show the same problem:
> 
> I'm using make (not dmake) with SHELL=/bin/sh to build my project,
> and it also died unexpectedly on different locations.
> 
> So i've attached an extract of my Makefile, where i got the problem.
> I did this on a Windows Server 2003, so you might have to change each
> "CYGWIN_NT-5.2" in the Makefile to match your `uname`.
> 
> When starting make in a loop, i get this output with different numbers
> of done-lines in subsequent runs of the loop:
> 
> *bash-2.05b$ while make -f Makefile ; do true ; done  *
> testing uname ...done
> testing uname ...make: *** [testuname] Error 128
> bash-2.05b$
> 
> When i tried strace to track down the problem, i could not await to
> get the error using following command, so i think this might be a
> timing-problem:
> 
> *bash-2.05b: while strace -o strace.out make -f Makefile ; do rm 
> strace.out ; done   *
> 
> But then, i switched to SHELL=/bin/bash in the Makefile,
> the error did not occur any more.
> So, softlinking /bin/bash to /bin/sh did help for now.
> 
> Another note: i was one of the unlucky fellows, which got 1.5.6,
> and when i saw this problem there first, i immediately switched
> back to 1.5.5 being in hurry to get up, but now i'm on 1.5.7.
> 
> In the hope to being able to help,
>   Michael
> 
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