From: Pierre DOT Humblet AT eurecom DOT fr (Pierre A. Humblet) Subject: Re: Bash exits after background command exits (B20) 6 Nov 1998 23:31:51 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981105202047.00882d30.cygnus.gnu-win32@pop.ne.mediaone.net> References: <3640B2BB DOT B75A5AF5 AT transcanada DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Neil Schemenauer" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 01:02 PM 11/4/98 -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote: >For some reason bash is getting a EOF after a background command exits. >To keep bash open IGNOREEOF can be set to 1. This prints "Use "exit" to >leave the shell." after every background command exits. Annoying. >Also, Control-C seems to still kill background tasks. Setting >CYGWIN=tty does not seem to help. Finally, bash doesn't exit if there >are background tasks running. Help! > My experience with B20 on my Win95 box, CYGWIN=tty, is that bash will freeze (not exit) after the last background command exits (well, 90% of the time...), irrespective of IGNOREEOF.... Thus sleep 10 & sleep 20 & (almost) guarantees a freeze in 20 secs. Pierre > > Neil >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".