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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 20:14:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: 1.3.3 Heads Up:  ^Z interupt
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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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