> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Matthias Andree
> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:13 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing
> Emacs shell?
>
> David Karr schrieb:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Ken Brown
> >> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:54 PM
> >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> >> Subject: Re: How to avoid having shell scripts which fail from killing
> >> Emacs shell?
> >>
> >> On 6/22/2009 3:38 PM, David Karr wrote:
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On
> >> Behalf
> >>>> Of Ken Brown
> >>>> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:26 PM
> >>>> On 6/22/2009 10:53 AM, David Karr wrote:
> >>>>> I've often been annoyed by shell scripts which fail for particular
> >>>>> reasons, at which point it causes my Emacs shell buffer to get
> killed,
> >>>>> with "Process shell<2> finished".
> >>>> I don't recall ever seeing this happen, but maybe I just don't
> >> remember.
> >>>> Can you give me a simple test case?
> >>> I'm not sure how complicated it needs to be. My test case gathers a
> >> couple
> >>> of parameters and then calls a Java (JDK 1.6.0_14) class. The class
> >> throws
> >>> an exception (file not found) in my test case (because I'm
> deliberately
> >>> giving it parameters that will cause that). If I give it parameters
> >> that
> >>> will avoid the exception, then it doesn't kill the shell.
> >>>
> >>> Is that enough information to build a test case with?
> >> No. I don't have JDK installed, and I don't have any idea how it
> >> interacts with cygwin processes. If you can trigger the problem with a
> >> simple shell script that doesn't require JDK, I'll see if I can help.
> >> Or maybe someone on the list who does have JDK can suggest something
> for
> >> you to try.
> >
> > I was able to produce an additional clue by writing a custom class for
> > testing this.
> >
> > I found that the key is whether the Java class reads from stdin or not.
> I
> > built a first version that takes a filepath on the command line, and
> whether
> > I get the class to throw an exception or not, it exits the script
> without
> > killing the shell. However, when I changed the class to also read a
> line of
> > input from stdin, whether the filepath on the command line exists or not
> > (i.e., whether the class throws an exception or not), it kills the shell
> at
> > completion of the script.
> >
> > So, it has something to do with whether the sub-shell reads stdin or
> not. I
> > have no idea what that indicates, but I'm sure that must be useful
> > information.
>
> Just a few pointers:
>
> Does the problem go away if the java command is enclosed in parentheses,
> so as
> to run it in a sub-shell?
No, I tried that earlier. No difference.
> Are you using (perhaps in the emacs configuration somewhere) shell options
> like
> "-e" for the /outer/ shell?
No.
> Are you sourcing (". scriptname") rather than executing ("scriptname")
> your scripts?
No.
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