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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:31 -0800
From: Sponge Bob <sponge_bob_128 AT cox DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Bug: ssh-agent "fork"/spawn/createprocess becomes codependent on the window/process that ran it.
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Replacing cygwin1.dll with latest (Feb7,2012) snapshot version fixed problem.
Thanks.

On 2/8/2012 1:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  6 19:30, Sponge Bob wrote:
>> Rolling back the "cygwin" package from 1.7.10-1 to 1.7.9-1 makes problem go away.
>>
>> On 2/6/2012 4:02 PM, Sponge Bob wrote:
>>> Just updated to latest CYGWIN in Windows XP.  After running ssh-agent, the command prompt
>>> window that it ran in will hang on "exit".  If the window is forcibly killed, it will
>>> take the ssh-agent down with it.  If the ssh-agent is forcibly killed, the "exiting"
>>> window will close.  Previous versions of ssh-agent in cygwin turned into a background
>>> process. Don't know if this is a ssh-agent problem or a generic forking problem.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  Please check if the latest snapshot from
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ fixes the problem for you.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 


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