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From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Subject:  Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing Emacs   shell?
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:03:50 +0000 (UTC)
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David Karr <dkarr <at> real.com> writes:

> > > > 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.
> > 
> > I found that the key is whether the Java class reads from stdin or not.
>
> 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.

Hmm.  JDK is a native windows app, not a cygwin app.  So maybe the key here is 
not just reading stdin, but passing stdin to a non-cygwin app.

-- 
Eric Blake



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