On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Al Goodniss wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded to the latest Cygwin DLLs I am now using v1.5.4-1. > Somewhere in the last two 1.5 updates I have lost the ability to suspend > the foreground job, it had been working. The fixes listed in the mailing > list (adding tty to the CYGWIN env. variable) did not work for me (see > below). > > I normally run tcsh (tcsh.exe -l) but I did try the same with the > Cygwin.bat file as provided. In both cases hitting ^Z to suspend the > active job resulted in the cygwin window 'hanging'. It looks like the > job is suspended, but I never get back to the shell prompt. > > Here's the specifics; > > 1) Launch tcsh or Bash > 2) Launch vim or less (probably others did not check) > 3) hit ^Z > > At this point my system will be 'hung'. By hung I mean although I am > back to the shell, I get no shell prompt and any text I type is not > echoed to the screen. If I'm running in X I can go in and kill -9 the > vim or less process and whatever I had typed at the 'hung' window will > magically be piped to the shell and try to be executed. > > I did try the 'tty' fix as shown in the mailing lists. If I place tty in > my CYGWIN environment variable the text that I type at the hung window > will be echoed but not executed. In both cases I never get the shell > prompt back. Same in X or running standalone. I also tried a reinstall > of the core cygwin components, rebooting, etc. to no avail. > > What did I miss? > -Al
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