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Re: Infinite loop in rxvt with recent cygwin


On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:41:21PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:17:36PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:04:58PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:13:45PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>>>This is on WinME with a Cygwin built from cvs last night.
>>>>
>>>>When a program, such as "sleep 10", is ^C interrupted, the shell enters
>>>>an infinite loop, as if infinitely many RET were input.
>>>
>>>Can't duplicate it on Windows 95.  I don't have ME or at least I can't
>>>get to it easily.
>>>
>>>However, I suspect that I'm probably not duplicating something in your
>>>environment.
>>
>>I duplicated it on Windows XP.  I suspect it has something to do with
>>Steve O's recent tty changes.  I'll see if I can figure out what's going
>>wrong.
>
>I've checked in a fix and am generating a new snapshot now.

Oops.  Thanks for the head's up, Pierre.

Btw, my inability to duplicate this was sheer stupidity on my part.  I
was somehow assuming that just setting CYGWIN=tty and running bash was
equivalent to running rxvt.  Nope.

cgf

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