procps and pgrep hang

Thu Jun 7 00:54:00 GMT 2012

On Wed 6/6/12 10:04 EDT cgf wrote:
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> >This morning I tried cygwin-inst-20120604.tar.bz2, and the problem
> >shows up in the same way as decribed above for cygwin-inst-20120507.tar.bz2.
>> Is putty required to see this hang?

Yes. 
Tonight, I tried 
 cygwin-inst-20120507.tar.bz2
and I started rxvt, started sshd, ssh'd to the localhost within
the rxvt window, then started GNU screen, opened 4 screen "windows", 
and several vim sessions ( each suspended ). The bug does *not* show up.
Then, if I 'putty -ssh' (version .60) to the localhost, and then run 
 procps -wwH -o pid,ppid,user,tty,args -e
it hangs.
So putty triggers it. I'll try a newer version of putty.
I like being able to paste w/the middle mouse button w/putty.
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thanks much,
Tom
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