Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/02/21:22:59
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
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