Re: gitk kills bash shell

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

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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