Bug in bash with Cygwin B20

Bug in bash with Cygwin B20

[Jorrit Tyberghein]

Hi,

I just installed the new Cygwin B20 today (on a Windows NT 4.0 system).
I've discovered that bash just hangs after typing about 9 to 10 illegal commands.

I just have to type 'xkdkdlefg' (or any other command you don't happen to have
somewhere :-) about 10 times and bash stops just like that. I can still quit it by
closing the windows but Ctr-C doesn't work.

It doesn't happen with valid commands.

Is this a known bug?

Greetings,

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by intelligences greater than Man's, or at least much nastier; that their
affairs were being scrutinised and studied as a man with a three-day
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Re: Bug in bash with Cygwin B20

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi Jorrit,

[...]
>I just installed the new Cygwin B20 today (on a Windows NT 4.0 system).
>I've discovered that bash just hangs after typing about 9 to 10 illegal
>commands. 
>
>I just have to type 'xkdkdlefg' (or any other command you don't happen to
>have somewhere :-) about 10 times and bash stops just like that. I can still
>quit it by closing the windows but Ctr-C doesn't work.
>
>It doesn't happen with valid commands.
>
>Is this a known bug?

No, and it doesn't happen here.
- NT 4 Server German SP3
- Cygwin B20

I tried to type about a hundred wrong commands - nothing remarkable
happened. I even wrote "while true; do qsfjlhfg; done" and it didn't
crash anything.

>
>Greetings,

Bye.
Michael.
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RE: Bug in bash with Cygwin B20

[Rick Rankin]

Seems to work OK on '98. I was up to about 35 "garbage" commands when I gave
up. It never even paused. I'll have to try it on my NT4 installation at
work.

Rick
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have just tested it. The same on my PC too.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhail
>
> ---Jorrit Tyberghein <Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed the new Cygwin B20 today (on a Windows NT 4.0
> system).
> > I've discovered that bash just hangs after typing about 9 to 10
> illegal commands.
> >
> > I just have to type 'xkdkdlefg' (or any other command you don't
> happen to have
> > somewhere :-) about 10 times and bash stops just like that. I can
> still quit it by
> > closing the windows but Ctr-C doesn't work.
> >
> > It doesn't happen with valid commands.
> >
> > Is this a known bug?
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > --
> >
> ==================================================================
> ============
> > Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be, University Hospitals KU Leuven
> BELGIUM
> >
> > No-one would have believed, in the final years of the Century of the
> > Fruitbat, that Discworld affairs were being watched keenly and
> impatiently
> > by intelligences greater than Man's, or at least much nastier; that
> their
> > affairs were being scrutinised and studied as a man with a three-day
> > appetite might study the All-You-Can-Gobble-For-A-Dollar menu outside
> > Harga's House of Ribs...
> >         -- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
> >
> ==================================================================
> ============
> >
> >
> >
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Re: Bug in bash with Cygwin B20

[Mikhail Tchernychev]

Hi,

I have just tested it. The same on my PC too.

Regards,
Mikhail

---Jorrit Tyberghein <Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed the new Cygwin B20 today (on a Windows NT 4.0
system).
> I've discovered that bash just hangs after typing about 9 to 10
illegal commands.
> 
> I just have to type 'xkdkdlefg' (or any other command you don't
happen to have
> somewhere :-) about 10 times and bash stops just like that. I can
still quit it by
> closing the windows but Ctr-C doesn't work.
> 
> It doesn't happen with valid commands.
> 
> Is this a known bug?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> --
>
==============================================================================
> Jorrit.Tyberghein@uz.kuleuven.ac.be, University Hospitals KU Leuven
BELGIUM
> 
> No-one would have believed, in the final years of the Century of the
> Fruitbat, that Discworld affairs were being watched keenly and
impatiently
> by intelligences greater than Man's, or at least much nastier; that
their
> affairs were being scrutinised and studied as a man with a three-day
> appetite might study the All-You-Can-Gobble-For-A-Dollar menu outside
> Harga's House of Ribs...
>         -- (Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
>
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> 
> 
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