On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:43:28PM -0500, 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.
I've checked in some changes that seem to fix the reported behavior. Does the current snapshot rectify this behavior? cgf -- 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/
