1.3.2 bug: expect kills the terminal

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Aug 6 22:16:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:02:28PM +0200, Stanislav Sinyagin All Com AG wrote:
>After running "expect" with any spawn command, 
>something bad is done to the terminal, and bash shell attached to this 
>tty exits immediately.
>
>Example: 
>
>File "aaa" contains a single line:
>   spawn sh
>
>Running "expect aaa" kills the shell, and the command window closes 
>automatically. If running "C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat" from a cmd window, 
>after running expect bash says "logout" and returns back to cmd.
>
>After downgrading to Cygwin DLL 1.3.1 release, the problem disappears.
>
>The problem occurs at Cygwin DLL 1.3.2 under Windows 2000 Service Pack 1.
>All the cygwin package re-installed from newest distribution 
>by Jul 4 2001.
>
>See attached the "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" report

I've just checked in a fix for this so it should be ok in the next
snapshot.

cgf

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