gitk kills bash shell

[Ryan Johnson]

  Jeremy Ramer said:
> I have a very repeatable issue, but I'm not sure how to go about
> debugging it.  I follow this process.
>
> 1) Start an rxvt bash shell
> 2) Go to a git repo folder
> 3) Start gitk
> gitk --all&
> 4) Go back to bash and press any key except enter and bash closes
>
> I also get a similar problem with this process:
> 1) Start an rxvt bash shell
> 2) Go to a git repo folder
> 3) Start gitk
> gitk --all&
> 4) Close gitk with the close button. Both gitk and bash close.
>
> Note that the issue does not happen if I don't start gitk as a
> background process. But then I can't use the shell.
>
> Any debugging tips?
This sounds suspiciously similar to a problem that hit me a while back: 
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00225.html

The short version is, running certain apps in the background triggers a 
bug in tty handling.
Last I heard Corinna was having trouble diagnosing because the bug also 
kills strace :)

No fix yet AFAIK.

Regards,
Ryan


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