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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:53:30 -0400
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On 6/6/2012 7:33 PM, jjo wrote:

> ii) I set 'proc_retry' to 0 or 1 in a Cygwin shell like this
>    CYGWIN=proc_retry:1
> (following the example given here
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00103.html) and tried again. Didn't
> solve the problem. Sometimes still restarts more than once automatically. Is
> the default value something other than 0 or 1? Was my way of setting the
> proc_retry environment variable effective?

You may need to write:

export CYGWIN=proc_retry:1

Regards -- Eliot Moss

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