Some update on Cygwin hangs

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

22 okt 2012 kl. 17:56 skrev Kelly O'Hair <kelly.ohair at oracle.com>:

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> I'm completely surprised by that statement, I thought you had said that msys was slower but more stable.

That was my original impression. Erik noted otherwise, and subsequent testing on my computer also led to crashes. Instability is easy to prove, a single crash will do, but stability is harder to "prove". 


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>> Erik has seen lots of random crashes, I haven't seen many (just about one or two) but I have also seen hangs.
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>> So we've basically taken the informal decision of not pushing the msys track any further. What's in there will work properly some/most of the time. It might very well be good enough for "community support", but it won't do to use in our build farms.
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> Who  was "we" here?  And what exactly is this "informal decision" that was made?

Me and Erik decided before he left on vacation that we needed to continue investigating Cygwin, since msys was unstable. We couldn't just say "problem solved, use msys". It also seemed a less risky way to solve the single, repeatable problem in Cygwin, rather than unknown problems in msys causing crashes in different places. 

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> And what does  "some/most" mean?

I don't know. I could build continuously for almost 24h on my computer before a crash, Erik had constant issues. You (and/or Tim) are welcome to try yourself to run on msys and see what results you get. 

/Magnus