gitk kills bash shell

Jeremy Ramer jdramer@gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 18:25:00 GMT 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jeremy Ramer <jdramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!
>

So the snapshot fixes the issue, but breaks a bunch of other cygwin
apps (like ssh server). Any idea when this fix is going to make it
into the released cygwin1.dll?

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