On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:28:51PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 9/28/2010 9:40 PM, Jeremy Ramer wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Johnson<ryanj...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: >>> This sounds suspiciously similar to a problem that hit me a while back: >>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00225.html >>> >>> The short version is, running certain apps in the background triggers a bug >>> in tty handling. >>> Last I heard Corinna was having trouble diagnosing because the bug also >>> kills strace :) >>> >>> No fix yet AFAIK. >> I was afraid of that. It just started happening for me after upgrading >> to cygwin 1.7, as well as to others in my company. >One nice thing, at least, is it takes a very specific setup to trigger >the bug. You may be able to get a usable workaround by changing how it's >called (see the thread above for ideas). > >Hopefully we get a fix for this soon, though.
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