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On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 02:54:37PM +1100, Andrew Dalgleish wrote: >>>>Nope. I've duplicated it. I'll see what the problem is. It doesn't >>>>seem to be thread-safe related and it probably isn't even a problem >>>>with the new signal code. It looks like my new mutex-like object is >>>>not as robust as I thought. I've checked in changes that should improve this behavior. >>>This might be related - "echo $(pwd)" outputs just a newline. I first >>>observed this in winsup-19991205, but I have not even begun to look. >>>This was built on NT4sp5 + cygwin B20.1 + Mumit's gcc 2.95 + >>>winsup-19991204. >> What shell are you using? >The shell is bash 2.02 from cygwin b20.1, copied to /bin/sh.exe. >> >> Does pwd actually >> have a value? > >What do you mean? >$(pwd) is a command in a sub-shell, not a variable. Doh. That's right. I've got make on the brain. >Shell built-in commands eg $(pwd) never work. >External commands eg $(dirname /foo/bar) work most times, but hang maybe >1 time in 20. >A ^C brings back the prompt every time (but one). The hanging problem should be fixed. I think I know how to deal with this problem but it will have to wait until tomorrow. cgf
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