[darcs-users] Fw: weird "awaitRequests" message, randomly emitted

[Will]

"Bert Douglas" <bertd at bellsouth.net> writes:

> I found a reference to this same problem with google.  This was after I
> spent two hours reading the archives of the mailing list.
> http://www.abridgegame.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2004-November/004161.html
>
> It doesn't seem like this has or is going to be fixed.
>
> Is it safe to ignore this message ?

This message is from GHC, so it is possible that it may not occur in a
darcs compiled by GHC 6.4.

I have never seen it happen myself, but I don't use cygwin either.  It
may be related to running darcs with stdin and stdout that aren't from
a genuine win32 console.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bert Douglas" <bertd at bellsouth.net>
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> See shell transcript below.  This is on windows xp-sp1 with cygwin bash
>> shell.  Randomly, about every 2 to 10 commands, I get this message.  It
>> seems to happen on all commands.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bert Douglas
>>
>>
>> $ darcs what
>> No changes!
>> awaitRequests: unexpected wait return code 4294967295