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Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:28:51 +0200
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  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.

Ryan


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