Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

[Andy Koppe]

2009/10/5 Corinna Vinschen:
> There's a difference, though, when starting xterm via the `run -p xterm
> -ls' shortcut.  With Cygwin -61, xterm just starts tcsh and it works,
> with Cygwin -62, xterm tries to start the shell via luit, and that
> fails.  If luit is missing on the system (renamed), xterm starts with
> a message "Can't execvp /usr/bin/luit: No such file or directory", and
> then starts tcsh just fine afterwards.
>
> Since there's no difference otherwise, it's not clear to me why this
> occurs.  In both cases the locale is set to the default "C" locale.

Perhaps its behaviour depends on MB_CUR_MAX?

Andy

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