Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/09/21/10:45:52
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall
> Sent: 21 September 2004 15:39
> At 10:32 AM 9/21/2004, you wrote:
> >This patch also fixes a long-standing problem that I've had:
> >
> > My .bash_profile is rather complex (actually, it sources .bashrc,
> > which is where most of the complexity is), and at the end it runs a
> > program called `keychain'. That program always does some
> output and
> > sometimes does some input. Before I applied this patch, most (but
> > not all) of the time, keychain appeared to run in the background --
> > that is, I'd see a prompt from bash, implying that it had finished
> > executing commands from its startup files, but then I'd see output
> > from keychain. Worse, if keychain wanted to read input, it seemed
> > to "hear" only a garbled version of what I typed (in fact,
> the input
> > that it wants is my password, and would always claim I'd mistyped
> > it). With the patch, however, it works perfectly.
>
>
> You forgot to include the patch.
He was referring to the one in Pierre's post, to which his post was a
reply.
cheers,
DaveK
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