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Subject: RE: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:19:37 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of Eric Blake
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 9:04 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing
> Emacs shell?
> 
> David Karr <dkarr <at> real.com> writes:
> 
> > > > > I'm not sure how complicated it needs to be.  My test case gathers
> a
> > > > couple
> > > > > of parameters and then calls a Java (JDK 1.6.0_14) class.
> > >
> > > I found that the key is whether the Java class reads from stdin or
> not.
> >
> > I just tried changing my script to instead just do a "read" with a
> prompt.
> > This does not kill the shell at the end of the script.  When I do it in
> > Java, it kills the shell at the end of the script.  Weird.
> 
> Hmm.  JDK is a native windows app, not a cygwin app.  So maybe the key
> here is
> not just reading stdin, but passing stdin to a non-cygwin app.

That seems reasonable.  In the past, I believe I've seen references to
issues related to I/O interactions with non-cygwin apps.  Does that notion
give any one else a clue to why this might be happening, or how to mitigate
it?


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