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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:46:22 -0700
From: "Aaron Humphrey" <HumphreyA AT Kakari DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin shells exit immediately
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Did you try running bash non-interactively with a long-running command,
> e.g., 'bash -c "sleep 20"'?  Does that work?

It doesn't return an error, but it doesn't take any more or less time to return
than bash -c "sleep 1" or bash -c "sleep 150"

> Does 'bash --norc -i' work?

It doesn't do anything different.  I put an "echo" into my .bashrc, so I can
tell whether it's being sourced or not, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Whether it is or not, bash still exits.

> Also, if vim works, try adding the following to your .bashrc:
> set -o ignoreeof
> to eliminate the possibility of stray EOFs being sent to bash...

No luck there.

> If all else fails, there's always strace, but it will involve some effort
> on your part to examine it and try to figure out why bash exits.

I have a strace from my coworker's machine, where bash still works.
Unfortunately, they both seem to end, at least, the same way:

  255  166507 [main] bash 2872 readv: readv (0, 0x22E6C0, 1) blocking, sigcatchers 1
   52  166559 [main] bash 2872 readv: no need to call ready_for_read

So if there's a problem, it comes earlier.

I'm going to try reinstalling and seeing if that works.


--Aaron V. Humphrey
Kakari Systems, Ltd.



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