Intermittent failures with ctrl-c

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:11:03PM -0500, Tom Honermann wrote:
>On 01/16/2013 05:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 03:18:47PM -0500, Tom Honermann wrote:
>> I managed to duplicate a hang by changing your .bat file to use "sleep
>> 2" rather than false.  I'm investigating now.
>
>I noticed that you checked in some additional changes on the 16th that 
>look related to this, so I tested again with today's snapshot (20130118).

I thought I sent a "try a snapshot" but I must have been hallucinating
again.

>I was still able to produce hangs using the same test case.  The 
>symptoms are slightly different than I had seen previously.  bash hung 2 
>out of the ~60 times I interrupted the test.  No error messages were 
>displayed this time.  Upon pressing ctrl-c, bash hung for 60 seconds.  I 
>was then greeted with the "Terminate batch job" prompt and responding 
>'Y' terminated the process tree as expected.  Pressing ctrl-c while bash 
>was hung for that 60 seconds appeared to have no affect.

The hang should be fixed in the upcoming snapshot.

cgf

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