RE: Bash is very, very stable

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Betts
Hi Eric, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > Did you see the patch at > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00882.html? I predict it will > fix your problem. I had seen it, but at the time I hadn't drawn the connection between the symptoms I was seeing and those the patch addressed (and which I hadn't exp

RE: Re: Bash is very, very stable (was: Bash returns incorrect process status)

2004-09-24 Thread Phil Betts
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Hi Phil, > > The symptoms are consistent with the pid reuse issue, > although it is not common on NT4, AFAIK. > > A patched version is available as > http://xx.xxx.xxx//bash.exe > Please keep that url private. > > If you try it, let me know (or the lis

Re: Bash is very, very stable

2004-09-24 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Phil" == Phil Betts writes: Phil> Under cygwin, this breaks down. The output from echo is not Phil> correctly interleaved with the output of the external Phil> command Phil> b) the external commands are run asynchronously as Phil> background tasks. Did you see the pa