X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:00:52 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: pgrep does not terminate if processes are suspended Message-ID: <20091109150052.GC31587@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:25:39PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >Hi, > >pgrep from the procps package does not terminate when I suspend >processes (which you can do for instance do with Sysinternal's Process >Explorer). It does not happen when I use Ctrl+Z in a shell to suspend a >process. > >This is a bit of a problem to me as I have pgrep in my shell >initialization file and starting a new shell will simply never finish >when any process is in suspended state. I can see why this would happen. It's definitely a Cygwin DLL bug but I think that fixing it will probably have to wait until 1.7 is released. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple