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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:53:59 -0400
From:	Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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On 6/22/2009 3:38 PM, David Karr wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
>> Of Ken Brown
>> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:26 PM
>> On 6/22/2009 10:53 AM, David Karr wrote:
>>> I've often been annoyed by shell scripts which fail for particular
>>> reasons, at which point it causes my Emacs shell buffer to get killed,
>>> with "Process shell<2> finished".
>> I don't recall ever seeing this happen, but maybe I just don't remember.
>>   Can you give me a simple test case?
> 
> I'm not sure how complicated it needs to be.  My test case gathers a couple
> of parameters and then calls a Java (JDK 1.6.0_14) class.  The class throws
> an exception (file not found) in my test case (because I'm deliberately
> giving it parameters that will cause that).  If I give it parameters that
> will avoid the exception, then it doesn't kill the shell.
> 
> Is that enough information to build a test case with?

No.  I don't have JDK installed, and I don't have any idea how it 
interacts with cygwin processes.  If you can trigger the problem with a 
simple shell script that doesn't require JDK, I'll see if I can help. 
Or maybe someone on the list who does have JDK can suggest something for 
you to try.

Ken

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