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 23:34:46 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setsid() does not call FreeConsole() even if all files are closed Message-ID: <20051114043446.GA31991@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4377651F.9050400@t-online.de> <4377C3A7.9040703@t-online.de> <20051114012905.GA26784@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051114012905.GA26784@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 08:29:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:52:23PM +0100, 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, you're right. I must have been hallucinating because I can't duplicate >the result that I thought I saw previously. Reading the rest of the strace >was instructive and I see what the problem is now. > >I hope to produce a fix soon. Sorry for the misinformation. I'm uploading a snapshot which should fix the problem when CYGWIN=notty. The console will stay attached when CYGWIN=tty, however, and I can't convince myself that this is good behavior. I'll look at that more tomorrow. cgf -- 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/