Christopher Faylor writes: > > > I've put a patched version of bash up at: > > ftp://sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/tmp/bash.exe > > if anyone wants to try this. It would be good to confirm or deny > that this fixes the problem for everyone. > > Btw, maybe this has already been mentioned, but here is a simple > test script that demonstrates the problem when run from the console: > > #!/bin/bash > exec 0<&- > A=$(cygpath -A -P) > echo $A > > Save it as "hang" and run it as "bash hang" and it should hang nicely > with an unpatched bash.
Your patched 'bash' runs the above script fine here, whereas the distributed one hangs Note this is with a fairly recent locally built DLL HTH Norman Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.5.6 DLL epoch: 19 DLL bad signal mask: 19005 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 API major: 0 API minor: 94 Shared data: 3 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 2 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Program options name: Program Options Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Thu Oct 2 06:59:48 EDT 2003 Shared id: cygwin1S3-2003-10-02 06:59 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/