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Re: bash: Strange behavior when a program crashes


On 2008-10-29 12:23Z, Frank Redeker wrote:
> 
> When I execute a non-cygwin executable from the bash and the program
> crashes with an exception raised (e.g. access violation), the bash
> doesn't return immediately. Instead the crashed program is executed 4
> more times before the bash finally returns.

It's a feature:
  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00592.html

'set CYGWIN=proc_retry:1':
  http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00595.html

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