Re: [Mingw-users] Problem with the kill builtin in MSYS bash

[Cesar S. <ces...@gm...>]

On 9/8/2010 04:00, Peter Rosin wrote:
> I found an automake test that didn't behave properly (cont5.test). It
> had a success rate of about 50% for me on MSYS. I have reduced it to
> the below simple test case, which fails much more often than the
> original code.

Thanks for the test case.

> I.e. start a process in the background, check if it is alive with
> kill -0 (which it should be), and report failure if it isn't. But it
> appears that kill fails if it is executed too soon after the new
> process was created...
>
> Now, I know that I'm not up to date, sorry if this is an old bug. But
> it should be easy enough to test this for someone who is...

I didn't heard of it before.

In my setup, which I believe is up to date, the test fails every single 
time. So, it seems to be a true bug. Please, feel free to submit a bug 
report to the bug tracker.

Thanks,
Cesar