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Alexander Belchenko (bialix) wrote : Re: [Bug 69851] When running windows native version inside cygwin, bzr appears to hang

Nicholas Allen пишет:
> Public bug reported:
>
> If you run the native windows client inside a cygwin prompt then the bzr
> break-lock command appears to hang. This is because the user does not
> see any output on the terminal and does not realise they are being asked
> a question that they need to respond to. This may be the case with other
> interactive commands too. Running it inside a DOS prompt the user sees
> the question bzr is asking and so there is no problem.
>
> Note that in general output seems to be displayed on the terminal even
> inside a cygwin prompt. It only seems to be when the user is prompted
> for input that the question is not displayed. Could this be due to
> different flush policies in cygwin and dos prompt? Perhaps Cygwin only
> flushes output when a \n character is output.

I cannot reproduce this bug in cygwin bash shell + standalone bzr.exe
0.12 installed. Break-lock command works OK in this combination.

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Alexander