The bash console exits in 2.9.0

[Marco Atzeri]

On 10/09/2017 14:24, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Nick Popoff writes:
>> Maybe, you are already aware of this problem introduced in 2.9.0.  When I
>> say, for example:
>>
>> man ls
>>
>> The bash console just exits and 'less' stays running in memory until I kill
>> it.  This behavior completely disrupted everything I was doing.  The scripts
>> are with the same behavior seemingly when '&' is used to put the command in
>> background.  Thanks God, I had backups and restored 2.8.2.
> 
> More specifically, this happens for programs started from a console
> window (cmd), but not when the same commands are run in mintty (the
> shell itself doesn't seem to have anything to do with it).
> 

tested with cygwin.bat 32 and 64 on W7-64

The effect seems present only the first time that cygwin.bat is run;
the processes remains frozen but a second run seems to work fine.
So may be is a run issue on the first invocation.

Regards
Marco

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