[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.8

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  7 21:30, Kacper Michajlow wrote:
> 2015-12-07 17:00 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> > On Dec  7 10:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Dec  6 21:21, Kacper Michajlow wrote:
> >> > 2015-12-06 19:57 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>:
> >> > > Hi Cygwin friends and users,
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > I released a new TEST version of Cygwin, 2.4.0-0.8.
> >> > > [...]
> >> > Since 2015-12-03 snapshot I got only black screen when running this batch script
> >> > @echo off
> >> > C:
> >> > chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> >> > zsh -l -i
> >> >
> >> > Basically it deadlocks while processing .zshrc. I was debugging this
> >> > and it locks when loading "oh my zsh".
> >> >
> >> > Long story short is seems to hang here
> >> > https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/lib/git.zsh#L177
> >> > at least for the first time, because if I remove this line it hangs
> >> > somewhere else. It basically hangs if in git_compare_version() is any
> >> > kind of external command which cause fork.
> >> >
> >> > It works fine when running from mintty.
> >>
> >> Confirmed.  I have two different ways to fix this, but I'm not sure yet
> >> which one is better.  I'll test them a bit and probably check one of
> >> them in later today.
> >
> > I just uploaded a new developer snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> > and I just announced a new test release 2.4.0-0.9,
> > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-12/msg00007.html, both of
> > which come with a patch which should fix this issue.  It did for me, at
> > least :}
> >
> > Please give any of them a try.
> 
> 2.4.0-0.9 works fine. Thanks.

Thanks for testing and your feedback.


Corinna

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