From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61626 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2017 12:24:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 61528 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2017 12:24:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=backups, disrupted, God, god X-HELO: mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO mx009.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.39) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:24:15 +0000 Received: from vsmx002.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.192]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F096DD9BA11 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (unknown [87.185.222.136]) by mta-6-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C7F91199C4A for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:24:09 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: The bash console exits in 2.9.0 References: <001a01d32a29$0985dd70$1c919850$@np.oss.com> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 12:24:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <001a01d32a29$0985dd70$1c919850$@np.oss.com> (Nick Popoff's message of "Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:36:24 -0400") Message-ID: <87tw0aivxb.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00115.txt.bz2 Nick Popoff writes: > Maybe, you are already aware of this problem introduced in 2.9.0. When I > say, for example: > > man ls > > The bash console just exits and 'less' stays running in memory until I kill > it. This behavior completely disrupted everything I was doing. The scripts > are with the same behavior seemingly when '&' is used to put the command in > background. Thanks God, I had backups and restored 2.8.2. More specifically, this happens for programs started from a console window (cmd), but not when the same commands are run in mintty (the shell itself doesn't seem to have anything to do with it). Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple