^Z under current Cygwin problem

Tue Feb 20 08:53:00 GMT 2001

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:54:46AM +0300, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:12:43PM +0300, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>> >I thought it was zsh problem but it happens with vanilla bash as well:
>> >
>> >- the "sleep 100000" is can be suspended but exits immediately after fg'ing
>>>> Same thing on linux.
>>>>Should Cygwin carry over Linux bugs?:
>>bor@itsrm2% sleep 100000
>^Z
>zsh: suspended sleep 100000
>bor@itsrm2% fg
>[1] + continued sleep 100000
>>it's not going to exit.

It's not a bug.
>O.K., let's consider it a bug in GNU sleep implementation. What about another
>case (cat, tr etc)? This does not look right, do it?

No. It isn't right. I know what is causing it. I'm mulling over a fix now.
It was caused by an optimization that I am loathe to turn off but that may
be the ultimate solution.
cgf
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