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Re: Bash exits after background command exits (B20)
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- Subject: Re: Bash exits after background command exits (B20)
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 07 Nov 1998 15:35:00 +0100
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi,
[...]
>My experience with B20 on my Win95 box, CYGWIN=tty, is that bash will
>freeze (not exit) after the last background command exits (well, 90% of the
>time...), irrespective of IGNOREEOF....
>Thus
>sleep 10 &
>sleep 20 &
>(almost) guarantees a freeze in 20 secs.
According to Earnie Boyd:
>A bug was introduced in renaming CYGWIN32 to CYGWIN. In order to
>actually get tty support you must include two spaces after the equal
>sign before the tty.
>
>I.E.:
>
>set CYGWIN= tty
In fact, no matter, what the contents of CYGWIN env var are, you
*always have to prefix it with two blanks* !!
This cured the problem here !!
Bye.
Michael.
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