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Re: CVS head bash problem


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 03:32:36PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> It just occurred to me that this is probably the old bash "reuse the
> pid" problem.  Bash is confused when pid numbers are reused in quick
> succession, which can be the case on Windows.  I thought that Corinna
> had turned on something in bash to work around this problem.  I wonder
> if it is no longer on in recent versions of bash or if the workaround
> doesn't work.

It's still in use in the current bash version 2.05b.  It's a configure
thingy which activates this for LynxOS and Cygwin.  I didn't switch it
off.

Corinna

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