Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 15:06:13 -0400 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: patch for inetutils Message-ID: <20001002150613.B15338@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <000501c02ca3$85c5d480$e30a063e@emerald> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <000501c02ca3$85c5d480$e30a063e@emerald>; from steve.obrien@lineone.net on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:03:51PM +0100 On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:03:51PM +0100, Steve O'Brien wrote: >Hi > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Steve O'Brien wrote: > >>> 1) rlogin - does not terminate cleanly >>> This is because of an error in setting signals - specifically >catch_client >>> does not get installed as the handler for SIGCHLD so that the parent >process >>> does not tidy up correctly when its child terminates. My fix is a very >minor >>> change to libinetutils/setsig.c > >> Hmm, this does fix the problem only in CYGWIN=tty mode. I just tried it >three times with notty and it was >> worse than before. Pressing the RETURN key doesn't return to the shell >prompt anymore. So I will not >> check in that until the problem is solved for notty as well. > >I prepared my fix using NT4.0 SP6, and have since tested it also on win98SE. >I always work in an xterm, rather than a cygwin console, and rlogin with my >fix works correctly on both machines whether I have CYGWIN=tty or >CYGWIN=notty. There appears to be a bug in the cygwin implementation of >sigaction() such that using the same address for both the new action and the >old results in the new action not being installed. My fix is a work-around >for this, and without it I think there is no chance of obtaining correct >behaviour from rlogin. In this scenario, a fix for cygwin is GREATLY preferred than kludging a workaround every time you find a problem. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com