postinstall hang

[Popper, Samuel (US SSA)]

> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the
postinstall
> always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places.

I am still having this problem (as evidenced by previous messages).
I've come up with a bash script "test case" that demonstrates the
problem:

$ NUM=1; while true ; do echo $NUM; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done

will run indefinitely, whereas:

$ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done

Hangs pretty quickly, usually while printing some number in the 100-200
range.  Killing the windows bash.exe process at the leaf of the process
tree causes the script to resume counting.

-Sam


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