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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: joshk@triplehelix.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weirdness with suspending jobs in 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:05:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041009140551.58fce532.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041009101552.GA3727@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:33:24PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> 
>  > Hello,
>  > 
>  > It seems that make (possibly among other things) has been affected by
>  > some change in 2.6.9-rcX that prevents it from resuming some jobs.
>  > 
>  > I created this Makefile as a testcase:
>  > 
>  > all:
>  > 	sleep 5
>  > 	echo Hi
>  > 	sleep 5
>  > 
>  > The result:
>  > 
>  > darjeeling:~{0}% make
>  > sleep 5
>  > 
>  > zsh: suspended  make
>  > darjeeling:~{1}% bg
>  > [1]  + continued  make
>  > make: *** wait: No child processes.  Stop.
>  > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>  > darjeeling:~{1}% echo Hi
>  > Hi
>  > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>  > sleep 5
>  > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>  > 
>  > [1]  + exit 2     make
>  > 
>  > This happens with bash also. I'm pretty sure it didn't use to happen
>  > with older kernels. Any ideas?
> 
> 
>  I'm also observing this problem.

Neither I not Roland could reproduce this.

>  It doesn't depend on which version I'm compiling, it depends on which 
>  kernel I'm actually running.
> 
>  (2.6.9-rc1 is OK, 2.6.8-rc3-mm3 is not OK.)

What about current -linus?

Is there any way in which you can do a bit of bisecting, identify the
offending patch?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-09 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05  6:33 Weirdness with suspending jobs in 2.6.9-rc3 Joshua Kwan
2004-10-09 10:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-09 14:16   ` Joshua Kwan
2004-10-09 21:05   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-10  7:39     ` Joshua Kwan
     [not found]       ` <20041010004524.0bf6d42e.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-10-10  7:55         ` Joshua Kwan
2004-10-10 21:15         ` Joshua Kwan
2004-10-11 20:55           ` Roland McGrath
2004-10-11 21:16             ` Joshua Kwan
2004-10-11 23:09               ` Roland McGrath
2004-10-12  3:39             ` Petri Kaukasoina
2004-10-12  3:45               ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-12  3:51                 ` Petri Kaukasoina
2004-10-12  4:14                   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-12  3:52               ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-12  3:56                 ` Petri Kaukasoina
2004-10-12  4:11                   ` Petri Kaukasoina
2004-10-11 23:27           ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-11 18:25     ` Adrian Bunk
2004-10-11 18:35       ` Joshua Kwan
2004-10-14 21:51       ` Tomasz Torcz

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