cygwin 1.5+ process control problem?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:37:07AM +0400, Alexander Osipenko wrote:
>Shell hangs, executing command
>
>$ gcc -v --help | less

>Behavior noticed in
>  cygwin-1.5.4-1
>  gcc-3.2-3
>  bash-2.05b-13
>  less-381-1
>
>and remains after each upgrade until current version:
>  cygwin-1.5.5-1
>  gcc-3.3.1-1
>  bash-2.05b-13
>  less-381-1
>
>I can say nothing about cygwin 1.4+, but in other machine with cygwin-1.3.22-1 all
>operates as expected

I wished you'd reported this when you noticed it in 1.5.4.  I would have fixed it
for 1.5.5.

>Perhaps, similar behavior mentioned in
>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00992.html

No.  I reported that problem was fixed.  If you suspected that it was
related then downloading a snapshot and trying it would have been very
helpful for the cygwin cause.

Anyway, it should be fixed in the next snapshot.

http://cygwin.com/ , click on "Snapshots".

cgf

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