Re: gitk kills bash shell

[Ryan Johnson <ryanjohn at ece dot cmu dot edu>]

 On 9/28/2010 9:40 PM, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Johnson<ryanjohn@ece.cmu.edu>  wrote:
> > This sounds suspiciously similar to a problem that hit me a while back:
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00225.html
> >
> > The short version is, running certain apps in the background triggers a bug
> > in tty handling.
> > Last I heard Corinna was having trouble diagnosing because the bug also
> > kills strace :)
> >
> > No fix yet AFAIK.
> I was afraid of that. It just started happening for me after upgrading
> to cygwin 1.7, as well as to others in my company.
One nice thing, at least, is it takes a very specific setup to trigger 
the bug. You may be able to get a usable workaround by changing how it's 
called (see the thread above for ideas).

Hopefully we get a fix for this soon, though.

Ryan


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