Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/09/04/20:14:25
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:23:37PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 06:20:41PM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >>Using the default notty setting, Ctrl-Z to interrupt the foreground
> >>process then issuing the `bg' command to continue the processing in the
> >>background doesn't work. Example:
> >> make >& makecygwin.log
> >> ^Z
> >> bg
> >> tail -f makecygwin.log
> >>
> >>You will notice that nothing is being output to makecygwin.log and the
> >>CPU is 100% used by the make processes. The make processes id's don't
> >>change with time giving the indication that they aren't working. I'll
> >>debug further but I wanted to give detail on this problem before
> >>release.
> >
> >And, the reason for this is...?
> >
> >Maybe I should change the name for this list to 'cygwin-heads-up'.
>
> Just to clarify: This is a show stopper. It is now one of three
> show stoppers.
>
Glad to hear you think so.
> I can't duplicate it and I don't expect that I will be able to.
>
I can't either on my desktop. I'm getting ready to install the new bash
on the OMNIBOOK.
> I don't know how it would even be possible to suspend a process in
> CYGWIN=notty state. That should only be possible in a read from the
> terminal which make obviously isn't doing.
>
So, is this the bug??
> So, I'm relying on three people now to fix their show stoppers.
>
Right.
Earnie.
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