Re: unintended logout with bash shell

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Kris Warkentin wrote:

> This has been bugging me for a while and I think I've finally got it to a
> repeatable case.
>
> Suppose I have a function in my .profile like so:
>
>  vi(){
>   /cygdrive/d/vim/vim60/gvim.exe `for file in $* ; do cygpath -w $file ; done` &
>  }
>
> If I do something like 'vi /usr/include/std<tab>' (<tab> for command
> completion), as soon as it returns to the prompt (immediately because of the
> '&'), the terminal says 'logout'.  As soon as I exit the last gvim running
> on this terminal, the terminal goes away.  It seems more repeatable if the
> command completion didn't work the first time, that is, not enough had been
> typed to complete yet.
>
> Anyone else seen this behaviour?
>
> Kris

Kris,
I don't see this behavior on Win2k SP2, bash 2.05b-5...  Try putting the
whole gvim invocation line (including the '&') in parentheses (it'll
force the invocation into a subshell), and see if this helps...

Otherwise, please post the version of Cygwin and bash you have, and which
OS you're running on...
	Igor
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