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On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:28:51PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>  On 9/28/2010 9:40 PM, Jeremy Ramer wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Johnson<ryanjohn AT ece DOT cmu DOT edu>  wrote:
>>> 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.
>> I was afraid of that. It just started happening for me after upgrading
>> to cygwin 1.7, as well as to others in my company.
>One nice thing, at least, is it takes a very specific setup to trigger 
>the bug. You may be able to get a usable workaround by changing how it's 
>called (see the thread above for ideas).
>
>Hopefully we get a fix for this soon, though.

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00852.html

cgf

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