On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 06:50:26PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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?
Now when I start inetd on WinME a DOS Windows pops up. FYI inetd.c contains Cygwin specific code calling AllocConsole(). Perhaps it interacts with your changes. Pierre -- 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/
