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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:07:44 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Andy Piper <andyp AT bea DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More problems with subprocesses in 1.3.3
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Andy Piper wrote

> 
> There seems to be a regression in cygwin 1.3.3 with subprocess handling. 
> I have raised the issue before where it is impossible to ^C a subprocess 
> that is running inside of a shell script with CYGWIN=tty. For instance 
> running a shell script that runs java. However, the saving grace used to 
> be that you could ^Z the script and then do kill %1 and that would kill 
> off the shell *and* subprocess. Now even this doesn't work, if you do ^Z 
> and kill %1 the shell script dies but the underlying process doesn't.

Andy - can you try a snapshot of the cygwin dll?  There have been a lot 
of changes in the process handling code between 1.3.3 and pre1.3.4.

--Chuck


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