On Sep 9 08:08, Andrew Schulman via Cygwin wrote: > Here's a strange one. In bash in i686, try to run: > > ls /dev/ptmx > > I only get about as far as: > > ls /dev/p > > and then my terminal window vanishes. This happens: > > * In fish or bash. > * On two different hosts that I've tried. > * In mintty or a system terminal. In the system terminal, sometimes the > command works normally the first time, but fails the 2nd time; or I have to > press <TAB> after `ls /dev/p`, then the terminal vanishes. > * With other commands that treat their arguments as files, not text. So for > example, I can't finish typing `cat /dev/ptmx` or `test -r /dev/ptmx` > before the terminal window vanishes, but `echo /dev/ptmx` works normally. > > It doesn't happen: > > * In x86_64 - only i686. > * In scripts - only interactively. > > Is anyone else able to reproduce this? I've tried to capture an strace log, > but I've failed so far. The strace seems to stop the crash. Still trying. > > I thought this could be a BLODA problem, but the two hosts I tried are > running different virus scanners (McAfee and Windows Defender). > > Cygwin 3.1.7-1, all packages up-to-date. Output of cygcheck -svr attached. > > Andrew
I think I fixed it. I just uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Please give them a try. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
