Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: Re: Bash is very, very stable (was: Bash returns incorrect process status) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:22:04 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Phil Betts" To: "Pierre A. Humblet" Cc: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i8OFMG2w004051 Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Hi Phil, > > The symptoms are consistent with the pid reuse issue, > although it is not common on NT4, AFAIK. > > A patched version is available as > http://xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxx/bash.exe > Please keep that url private. > > If you try it, let me know (or the list) the outcome. > > Pierre Hi Pierre, WFM. I've given it a quick test using a command-line grabbed out of my history that always went wrong unless I used /bin/echo. I'll install it in place of the regular bash now so that it'll get a thorough work-out. If there are any problems, I'll keep you posted. Nice work, Phil ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/