Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-30 Thread Lev Bishop
SO I have been poking around some more and I can report some more details. I can say that it doesn't seem to be a problem with man, bash or less, and rather seems to be a problem concerning the way cygwin sends signals to a pipeline. The reason it showed up with man bash rather than others is

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-30 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 11:02:59PM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote: Here follow detailed results of my experimenting. Send the manpage to a file: $ man bash mb Use less to look at it: $ less mb No problems suspending/restarting. Use a pipeline in a subshell to view it (the way man does it): $

problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
Windows XP home edition GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) cygwin dll version 1.3.22 cygcheck -s -v -r attached So I have observed a strange phenomenon, where if I execute man bash in (using bash) and then suspend with ^Z, maybe one time in 4 there is a situation where the

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:13:41AM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote: Windows XP home edition GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) cygwin dll version 1.3.22 cygcheck -s -v -r attached So I have observed a strange phenomenon, where if I execute man bash in (using bash) and then

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:04:26AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: I tried reproducing this, but I don't get the same exact results. For me, it takes 7 or 8 tries, and all I get is a missing '[1]+ Stopped' message from bash; the next keystrokes still go to bash, though. The problem seems to go