Problem [1.7] diff leads to error msg

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Sat Oct 24 15:50:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:56:11PM +0100, Fergus wrote:
>Windows 7, Cygwin [1.7] latest snapshot 20091012.
>Comparing two large subdirectories with diff leads to error msg.
>Output from cygcheck -srv attached.
>
>~> diff -rq /d/home /m/home
>       6 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid 
>3720, pipe handle 0x10C, Win32 error 998
> 5069911 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid 
>3720, pipe handle 0x10C, Win32 error 998
>13992405 [main] diff 3720 sig_send: error sending signal -34 to pid 
>3720, pipe handle 0x10C, Win32 error 998
>
>Any ideas? Unfortunately this error is intermittent. Sometimes (usually, 
>actually) I can perform the identical comparison without any obvious 
>glitches. It may be another (or related) manifestation of a bad 
>interplay between W7, Cygwin and McAfee in the workplace, previously 
>reported.
>
>(See in particular http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00385.html.
>This is really ruining my Cygwin experience.  Needless to say, merely
>offering this as a hypothesis - that McAfee is to blame - to local IT
>chieftains, went down pretty badly.)

And yet, if you are actually running McAfee, that would seem to be
the obvious problem.  Especially given the fact that the mailing list
isn't flooded with people reporting "error sending signal -34" messages.

cgf

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