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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 12:54:28 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin-1.1.5-6, mingw-20001103-1, w32api-20001103-1, gcc-2.95-4
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In-Reply-To: <3A0ADA6C.D1F2A3B6@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:10:04PM -0500

On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:10:04PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>I seem to remember this being report earlier, but I couldn't find it --
>besides, it was related to an older 1.1.5-x.  I had hoped this error had
>been fixed, but apparently not since I just saw it again with
>cygwin-1.1.5-6:
>
>Sometimes when starting a cygwin app from within bash, the bash prompt
>will return immediately but ps shows that the app (say, vim) is still
>running in the 'S' state.  However, it's not in the background -- there
>does not seem to be anyway to 'foreground' that application.  All I can
>do is kill it, and try again.  
>
>This happens *very* infrequently, so it's extremely hard to track down
>-- in fact, it had been so long since I had seen the error, and mindful
>that I think it had already been reported, I assumed it had been fixed. 
>But it hasn't.

I can't duplicate this.  It will be in the release version.

Have fun.

cgf

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