From:	Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet)
Subject:	Re: Bash exits after background command exits (B20)
6 Nov 1998 23:31:51 -0800 :
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To:	"Neil Schemenauer" <neil_schemenauer AT transcanada DOT com>,
	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 01:02 PM 11/4/98 -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>For some reason bash is getting a EOF after a background command exits. 
>To keep bash open IGNOREEOF can be set to 1.  This prints "Use "exit" to
>leave the shell." after every background command exits.  Annoying. 
>Also, Control-C seems to still kill background tasks.  Setting
>CYGWIN=tty does not seem to help.  Finally, bash doesn't exit if there
>are background tasks running.  Help!
>
My experience with B20 on my Win95 box, CYGWIN=tty, is that bash will
freeze (not exit) after the last background command exits (well, 90% of the
time...), irrespective of IGNOREEOF....
Thus
sleep 10 &
sleep 20 &
(almost) guarantees a freeze in 20 secs.

Pierre

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