Re: [DejaGnu] Problems killing running tests

[Rob Savoye]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:11:55AM +1000, Billinghurst, David (CRTS) wrote:

>           # This is very, very nasty. Then again, if after did something
>           # reasonable...
>           set pgid "-[join $pid { -}]";
>           exec sh -c "exec > /dev/null 2>&1 && (kill -2 $pgid || kill -2 
> $pid) && sleep 5 && (kill $pgid || kill $pid) && sleep 5 && (kill -9 $pgid || 
> kill -9 $pid)" &;
> 
> in procedure standard_close in remote.exp.  The error messages
> are below.
> 
> While trying to understand what was happening, I found that
> executing "exec > /dev/null 2>&1" at a bash prompt with
> both bash-2.04+irix6.5 or bash-2.05+cygwin the shell locks up.
 
  It's a Cygwin bug, so I think this bug report needs to go to the Cygwin
list.

        - rob -