1.5.21 Forked background processes

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 10/2/2006 5:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Steve wrote:
>>> When running as a background process, forking using `backtick` 
>>> assignments causes the process to die and leaves the forked process
>>> in a defunct state.
> [snip]
>>
>> Tried with 1.5.21. Ran > 5500 times before I stopped it. ps looks 
>> clean to me. Perhaps 1.5.21 will work for you? Maybe a snapshot?
> 
> I can easily reproduce this with a self-built DLL from 20060827, but 
> only if I invoke file1.sh from within bash. If I run "bash file1.sh" 
> from a CMD shell, it works fine.


Cool!  So then perhaps the best approach here is to fire up the debugger
and see what you can see. ;-)  Alternatively, you can build a more recent
build and see if you still see the problem.  Then debug from there if so.


> Also (perhaps not surprisingly), if I add a wait at the end of file1.sh, 
> it runs fine until I Ctrl-C out of file1. Then, it will eventually hang 
> again.
> 
> Once it hung, I tried to kill the process bash process running file2.sh.
> 
> % handle file2
> 
> Handle v3.01
> Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Mark Russinovich
> Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
> 
> bash.exe           pid: 5052   C:\temp\cygwin\file2.sh
> 
> % /bin/kill -f 5052
> kill: couldn't kill pid 1100, 5
> 
> % ps -W | grep 1100
>      1100       1    6100       1100  con 1003 18:22:59 /usr/bin/bash
> 
> I can kill Windows pid 5052 using the Windows Task Manager.
> 


Interesting.  I didn't see anything like that myself.


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