CVS head bash problem

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:03:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:32:36PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> It just occurred to me that this is probably the old bash "reuse the
>> pid" problem.  Bash is confused when pid numbers are reused in quick
>> succession, which can be the case on Windows.  I thought that Corinna
>> had turned on something in bash to work around this problem.  I wonder
>> if it is no longer on in recent versions of bash or if the workaround
>> doesn't work.
>
>It's still in use in the current bash version 2.05b.  It's a configure
>thingy which activates this for LynxOS and Cygwin.  I didn't switch it
>off.

The problem still feels like this one, though.  I wonder if the bash
option which controls this is just not perfect and still requires
cygwin's workaround.  That's too bad, if so.  I always hated keeping
the process handles open in fork.cc.

cgf

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