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RE: Bash returns incorrect process status


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall
> Sent: 21 September 2004 15:39

> At 10:32 AM 9/21/2004, you wrote:
> >This patch also fixes a long-standing problem that I've had:
> >
> >  My .bash_profile is rather complex (actually, it sources .bashrc,
> >  which is where most of the complexity is), and at the end it runs a
> >  program called `keychain'.  That program always does some 
> output and
> >  sometimes does some input.  Before I applied this patch, most (but
> >  not all) of the time, keychain appeared to run in the background --
> >  that is, I'd see a prompt from bash, implying that it had finished
> >  executing commands from its startup files, but then I'd see output
> >  from keychain.  Worse, if keychain wanted to read input, it seemed
> >  to "hear" only a garbled version of what I typed (in fact, 
> the input
> >  that it wants is my password, and would always claim I'd mistyped
> >  it).  With the patch, however, it works perfectly.
> 
> 
> You forgot to include the patch.
 

  He was referring to the one in Pierre's post, to which his post was a
reply.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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