More problems with subprocesses in 1.3.3
Andy Piper
andyp@bea.com
Thu Oct 11 09:50:00 GMT 2001
At 01:07 AM 10/11/01 -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>There seems to be a regression in cygwin 1.3.3 with subprocess handling.
>>I have raised the issue before where it is impossible to ^C a subprocess
>>that is running inside of a shell script with CYGWIN=tty. For instance
>>running a shell script that runs java. However, the saving grace used to
>>be that you could ^Z the script and then do kill %1 and that would kill
>>off the shell *and* subprocess. Now even this doesn't work, if you do ^Z
>>and kill %1 the shell script dies but the underlying process doesn't.
>
>Andy - can you try a snapshot of the cygwin dll? There have been a lot of
>changes in the process handling code between 1.3.3 and pre1.3.4.
Sure, although I am a little wary. Since I started using 1.3.3 I have also
seen my entire machine lock-up (NT 4.0) a couple of times. When this
happens my productivity goes through the floor so I backed up to 1.3.2 and
haven't had any more lockups.
andy
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