Re: "gitk &" closes parent bash upon exit

[Keith Thompson]

Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
> "Illia Bobyr" <Illia.Bobyr@ronin-capital.com> writes:
> [...]
>>      When I do "gitk &" upon gitk exit the parent bash process 
>> terminates as well.
>>      When I do "(gitk &)" it works fine.  There does not seem to be any 
>> crash dumps.  But sometimes bash outputs "Logout" before it exits just 
>> as if I would press ^D on prompt.  I have tried putting "gitk &" call 
>> into a script and adding traps for all possible signals but none seemed 
>> to be fired.
>>      You do not have to be in a directory that is a Git repository.
>
> I wonder how "set -o ignoreeof" in the parent shell would affect
> the behavior.

I don't see this behavior, either with or without "set -o ignoreeof".

I see a pop-up error message: "Cannot find a git repository here";
when I click "OK" the message vanishes, gitk terminates, and the
parent bash shell is undisturbed.  Same thing whether bash is
running under rxvt, xterm, or a Windows command window.

$ cygcheck -c -d cygwin gitk bash
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
bash                 3.2.49-23
cygwin               1.7.5-1
gitk                 1.7.0.4-2

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