Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:33:04PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:56PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >>> Processes that attempt to shed their controlling terminal do so >>> well enough for the tty to show as ? in ps output, but they still >>> keep the console window they were launched from open, after all >>> other processes using it have exited. >>> >>> This is particularly annoying with ssh-agent - if I exit the shell >>> in the terminal that launched it, that terminal becomes a zombie, >>> hanging around for no purpose. If I close that window using the >>> Windows close box, the ssh-agent is killed. >>> >>> I'm not an expert in the ways of Unix ttys. Can anyone help me >>> understand where the problem lies? >> >> setsid() > > I think I see the problem. It will be tricky to fix but I'll see > what I can do.
Wow! Thanks! You realize, you can no longer claim to be mean.... :-) Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
