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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 21:00:26 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Behavior change with 20041231 snapshot
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On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:55:59PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote:
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>I've noticed a slight change in behavior from 1.5.12 and the 20041231 
>snapshot. It's affecting my scripts, but I'm not sure whether the old or 
>new behavior is correct.
>
>The command
>
>  % bash --login -c 'sleep 10 &'
>
>used to return immediately. Now, it waits until the child process 
>(sleep) completes.
>
>I've also noticed that
>
>  % bash -c 'sleep 10 &'
>
>does return immediately. I've tried removing my .profile and .bashrc 
>files to see if that made a difference, but it doesn't.
>
>The command
>
>  % bash --login -c 'setsid sleep 10 &'
>
>does return immediately.

Hmm.  I can duplicate this, so I'll fix it ASAP.

Thanks for the concise bug report.  I'll make sure that a fix shows up
in the next snapshot.

cgf

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