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Re: pgrep does not terminate if processes are suspended


On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:25:39PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>pgrep from the procps package does not terminate when I suspend 
>processes (which you can do for instance do with Sysinternal's Process 
>Explorer). It does not happen when I use Ctrl+Z in a shell to suspend a 
>process.
>
>This is a bit of a problem to me as I have pgrep in my shell 
>initialization file and starting a new shell will simply never finish 
>when any process is in suspended state.

I can see why this would happen.  It's definitely a Cygwin DLL bug but
I think that fixing it will probably have to wait until 1.7 is released.

cgf

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