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Re: gitk kills bash shell


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Christopher Faylor  wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:01:51PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> ?Jeremy Ramer said:
>>> I have a very repeatable issue, but I'm not sure how to go about
>>> debugging it. ?I follow this process.
>>>
>>> 1) Start an rxvt bash shell
>>> 2) Go to a git repo folder
>>> 3) Start gitk
>>> gitk --all&
>>> 4) Go back to bash and press any key except enter and bash closes
>>>
>>> I also get a similar problem with this process:
>>> 1) Start an rxvt bash shell
>>> 2) Go to a git repo folder
>>> 3) Start gitk
>>> gitk --all&
>>> 4) Close gitk with the close button. Both gitk and bash close.
>>>
>>> Note that the issue does not happen if I don't start gitk as a
>>> background process. But then I can't use the shell.
>>>
>>> Any debugging tips?
>>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.
>
> This should be fixed in the now-building snapshot. ?I actually fixed the
> problem a while ago but a stupid typo prevented the fix from actually
> doing what I'd intended.
>
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> cgf
>
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Tested out the snapshot. It fixes my issue. Thanks!

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