Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/09/17/10:40:30
I thank you for not beating me too badly. I did look :(
*Humbly goes back to learning how to do proper searches*
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:32:56AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Al Goodniss wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently upgraded to the latest Cygwin DLLs I am now using v1.5.4-1.
> > Somewhere in the last two 1.5 updates I have lost the ability to suspend
> > the foreground job, it had been working. The fixes listed in the mailing
> > list (adding tty to the CYGWIN env. variable) did not work for me (see
> > below).
> >
> > I normally run tcsh (tcsh.exe -l) but I did try the same with the
> > Cygwin.bat file as provided. In both cases hitting ^Z to suspend the
> > active job resulted in the cygwin window 'hanging'. It looks like the
> > job is suspended, but I never get back to the shell prompt.
> >
> > Here's the specifics;
> >
> > 1) Launch tcsh or Bash
> > 2) Launch vim or less (probably others did not check)
> > 3) hit ^Z
> >
> > At this point my system will be 'hung'. By hung I mean although I am
> > back to the shell, I get no shell prompt and any text I type is not
> > echoed to the screen. If I'm running in X I can go in and kill -9 the
> > vim or less process and whatever I had typed at the 'hung' window will
> > magically be piped to the shell and try to be executed.
> >
> > I did try the 'tty' fix as shown in the mailing lists. If I place tty in
> > my CYGWIN environment variable the text that I type at the hung window
> > will be echoed but not executed. In both cases I never get the shell
> > prompt back. Same in X or running standalone. I also tried a reinstall
> > of the core cygwin components, rebooting, etc. to no avail.
> >
> > What did I miss?
> > -Al
>
> ... Searching the recent archives. This was not only reported, but also
> fixed: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01005.html>.
> Igor
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