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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:38:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo DOT Graziosi AT roma1 DOT infn DOT it>
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Subject: Re: Bash 3.0-2 and kill
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> I have noted that when one uses
>
>    kill -9 <process-PID>
>
> in bash 3.0-2 (test), the command kills the process but also bash (even
> if one uses /bin/kill...).
>
> In bash 2.05b-17 that command kills only the process.
>
> These things happen with
>
>    cygwin 1.5.16-1
>    cygwin 1.5.17-1
>    snaps. 20050615
>    snaps. 20050617
>    snaps. 20050621
>
> (I have listed only the snaps I tried)
>
> Which is the normal behaviour (3.0-2 or 2.05b-17)?

Unless the <process-PID> refers to the bash process itself, it seems that
the behavior of 3.0-2 is wrong.  Not sure if it's a bash bug, or a Cygwin
signal handling bug exposed by bash (the behavior of /bin/kill seems to
point toward the latter).

To help debug this, please provide the exact sequence of commands you used
to trigger this behavior, as well as the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your
system.
	Igor
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