From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: Bash hanging
8 Jan 1999 16:20:19 GMT
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In article <AC4D3D80B239D211BC140000F879A2BA0AECBF DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT NTMAIL>,
Ian Collins <ianc AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz> wrote:
>Has anyone noticed bash hanging in b20.1?  It appears to be flow
>control related.  I tried stty -xoff, but it doesn't seem to solve the
>problem.
>
>It doesn't seem to matter whether it is in the console window, or in a
>telnet window.  The shell just occasionally just stops.

It is almost assuredly not flow-control related.

What does "just stops" mean, exactly?  Does it stop printing a prompt?
Or is there no response to commands at the prompt.

If you can reliably duplicate this, then we'll take a stab at fixing it.
cygcheck output would be useful in this case.
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