From: sala AT cris DOT enel DOT it (Sala Alberto)
Subject: Re: B20, on NT4.0: Bash crashes when background process ends
20 Nov 1998 19:56:09 -0800
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To: Robert Kieffer <kieffer AT alodar DOT com>
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>- Launch bash. 
>- Start a background process that does not immediately exit (e.g. "tail >-f somefile &") 
>- In the task manager, kill that process 
>- Now click the bash window 
>- * crash * ... The bash window goes away.

try:

 CYGWIN=  tty binmode
 IGNOREEOF=on

(with Sergey cygwin1.dll coolview avoid the couple of blanks before
"tty").

Bye
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