Recent snapshots and bash/stopping processes

[Rolf Campbell]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rolf Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:00:53AM -0400, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Open one window (rxvt):
>>>>$ sleep 1000
>>>>
>>>>Open a seperate window (rxvt):
>>>>$ ps
>>>>     PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>>>>    1716       1    1716       1716  con 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/rxvt
>>>>    1636    1716    1636       1724    0 11643 18:57:52 /usr/bin/bash
>>>>    1832       1    1832       1832  con 11643 18:59:13 /usr/bin/rxvt
>>>>    2072       1    2072       2072  con 11643 09:35:13 /usr/bin/rxvt
>>>>    2320    2072    2320       2260    2 11643 09:35:16 /usr/bin/bash
>>>>    2360       1    2360       2360  con 11643 09:50:50 /usr/bin/rxvt
>>>>    1844    2360    1844       2404    3 11643 09:50:53 /usr/bin/bash
>>>>    2448    2320    2448       2460    2 11643 09:51:07 /usr/bin/sleep
>>>>    2284    1844    2284       2452    3 11643 09:51:10 /usr/bin/ps
>>>>$ kill -STOP 2448
>>>>$
>>>>
>>>>Look back at first window:
>>>>$ sleep 1000
>>>>
>>>>[1]+  Stopped                 sleep 1000
>>>>$
>>>>
>>>>This has only started happending with recent cygwin versions, I'm
>>>>running Oct2 right now.
>>>
>>>Erm... and what's wrong with this?  It's the same as on Linux.
>>
>>Well, if this is design intent, then that's fine.  But, on older
>>cygwins, it used to just stop the process (the parent of the stopped
>>process (bash) did nothing).  It seems a little awkward to me at least,
>>if I stop/start a process, then I end up with both bash & that process
>>running at the same time, in the same console.
> Rolf,
> 
> The last sentence doesn't make sense.  If you're complaining about the
> notification, put a "set +b" (or "set +o notify") in your .bashrc.
> 	Igor

I'm not complaining about the notification, I'm complaining about the 
fact that bash resumes it's interactivity when one of it's children 
processes receive a stop signal (that it didn't generate).

/home/rcampbell> set +b
/home/rcampbell> sleep 100

[1]+  Stopped                 sleep 100



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