From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5463 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2005 14:54:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 5434 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jun 2005 14:54:28 -0000 Received: from vhost14.ev1servers.net (HELO vhost14.ev1servers.net) (67.15.110.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 14:54:28 +0000 Received: (qmail 23153 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 09:54:02 -0500 Received: from 216-136-86-16.gen.twtelecom.net (HELO RossLap) (216.136.86.16) by vhost14.ev1servers.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 09:54:02 -0500 From: "Ross Boulet" To: Subject: RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:04:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000001c57b28$07960e30$6401a8c0@RossLap> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00498.txt.bz2 > ----Original Message---- > >From: Christian Matuszewski > >Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42 >=20 > > Hi, > > > > if i start a fresh cygwin shell and I enter an asterisk > at the prompt: > > $ * > > then nothing happens. That's OK, although one could > expect a message like: > > "bash: *: command not found". > > > > But when i execute the following Makefile: > > foo: > > * > > [ ...snip...] > > > > and then make stays in an endless loop which prints > lines > > y > > y > > y > > ... > > to stdout > > > > When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk > in the command > > line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*' > will give the same > > messages and ends in an endless loop. >=20 > WDDTT! >=20 Maybe it's just Monday and I'm brain dead, but I couldn't find WDDTT in the OLOCA or elsewhere. Could someone please enlighten me? Thanks