X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:59:55 +0200 To: "David Karr" , kbrown@cornell.edu, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs shell? From: "Matthias Andree" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <41FCBA4373FF4228897280824F4627CF@corp.real.com> <4A3FDACE.3060402@cornell.edu> <4A3FE157.9080901@cornell.edu> <79EE5DFDC3DC45F2821CD2441A8A63C5@corp.real.com> <7F307F6AD3334E008D35103D37D60A73@corp.real.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7F307F6AD3334E008D35103D37D60A73@corp.real.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.64 (Win32) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Am 23.06.2009, 17:03 Uhr, schrieb David Karr : > I just tried changing my script to instead just do a "read" with a > prompt. > This does not kill the shell at the end of the script. When I do it in > Java, it kills the shell at the end of the script. Weird. Is Java trying anything WRT signalling process groups rather than just itself in the belief it were a session leader, i. e. when it tries to shoot its threads, it accidentally also shoots down the shell? Open stdin descriptors can hamper "detaching" processes. Does the Java stuff you're doing need stdin? If not, try running the JVM with input redirection such as <&- (closes stdin, assuming bash or similar) or