X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Jason Curl Subject: Re: bash, rxvt and interactive shells not exiting as expected Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:39:16 +0100 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <004201c723c9$14c67ea0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <004201c723c9$14c67ea0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Dave Korn wrote: > On 19 December 2006 23:43, Jason Curl wrote: > >> Now, AFAICT rxvt should be starting bash as a login shell in interactive >> mode. When I close the window from RXVT, a SIGHUP should be sent to >> bash, and according to the manpages from bash this should also cause >> SIGHUPs to all the other processes (e.g. effectively stopping everything >> from "log.sh"). I've also tried setting "shopt -s huponexit" but this >> doesn't have the effect I need. >> >> Instead, what I see is that after the RXVT shell is closed, there are >> still at least the first two processes that were started in the >> background are still running! I had expected them to quit. >> >> Any ideas? > > See this thread: > > http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Re%3A+Bash+process+remains+after+I+close+rxvt > +in+certain+ways&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&cli > ent=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official Yep - read through that just now. I'm supposedly running a patched version of rxvt (rxvt-20050409-4) that contains some adjustments for the zombie bash. > > particularly http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-12/msg00211.html > > Dunno if the test version is out yet. Haven't looked. > > > cheers, > DaveK -- 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/