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Re: "gitk &" closes parent bash upon exit


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: "gitk &" closes parent bash upon exit
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:31:11 -0600
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On 09/20/2010 12:44 PM, Illia Bobyr wrote:
      It may be a Cygwin specific problem.  Approximately at the time the
problem appeared cygwin.dll was also updated.

This is a known cygwin problem, caused by the fact that cygwin tcl is not cygwin-aware, which makes cygwin have a tough time knowinghow to manage controlling ttys across a parent and grandchild process with a non-cygwin process in the middle:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00641.html

Bash may yet have a bug where it over-reacts to a failed tty ioctl, by exiting instead of reporting the problem, but if that turns out to be the case, I will follow up here with more details.

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