Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

[Jerry D. Hedden]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> It's time again to release a new Cygwin version.
> 
> We're on the way to 1.5.20, and we're hoping that this release solves
> or at least workarounds a couple of problems introduced in earlier
> versions.

Seems to have created some new ones.  I have a cron job (a bash script)
that runs every 6 minutes, polling and downloading info off the web. 
With the 2006-03-09 snapshot, it works fine.  However, I have
experienced problems with most snapshots after it, including this one -
the full 2006-04-24 16:48 GMT snapshot.  I have always had to revert
back to 2006-03-09.

The problem is the script hangs at various places and the stuck
processes keep building up:
> ps -a
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
    26264       1   26264      26264  con 78809 15:39:13 /usr/bin/rxvt
      368   26264     368       2252    0 78809 15:39:13 /usr/bin/bash
    28904       1   28904      28904    ?   18 15:39:15
/usr/bin/cygrunsrv
     2020   28904    2020       1972    ?   18 15:39:15
/usr/sbin/cygserver
     2716       1    2716       2716    ?   18 15:39:17
/usr/bin/cygrunsrv
     2600    2716    2716      27672    ?   18 15:39:17 /usr/sbin/cron
     1720       1   45204      37852    ? 78809 16:24:02 /usr/bin/diff
    43456       1   37736      37680    ? 78809 16:30:02 /usr/bin/diff
    43252       1   36456      43616    ? 78809 16:36:02 /usr/bin/mv
    39364       1   22988       1628    ? 78809 16:42:02 /usr/bin/date
    33100     368   33100      33496    0 78809 16:46:32 /usr/bin/ps

The diff, mv and date processes above are examples of hung scripts. 
Further, I have to kill these processes using the task monitor:  kill
reports 'No such process'.

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