Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:10:50 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Christian Franke cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setsid() does not call FreeConsole() even if all files are closed In-Reply-To: <4377C3A7.9040703@t-online.de> Message-ID: References: <4377651F.9050400@t-online.de> <4377C3A7.9040703@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Christian Franke wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Yep, so, as CGF noted, try > > > > $ /usr/sbin/syslogd >/dev/null 2>&1 > $ exit > > That makes no difference. Shell exits but console window persists (at > least on XP SP2) until syslogd is terminated. > > Did you get a different result? No, I actually was able to reproduce your result without using syslogd: $ setsid sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 &- 2>&- <&- $ exit (same result). I've generated the strace for the above cases, and will take a deeper look when time permits. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/