Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:09:57 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Processes are unable to fully discard their controlling terminal Message-ID: <20030303160957.GC21446@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20030303040106 DOT GA2003 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:59:14AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:22:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:53:20AM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >> >>I can now successfully share an ssh-agent between all my shells, with >> >>it starting with the first one, and ending with the last, and no zombie >> >>windows if I end shells in the wrong order. >> > >> >I've noticed this behavior for a while and it has always bothered me. >I'm >> >glad that I was able to solve it. I think Pierre's original bug report >> >got me thinking about this although I suspect that his problem still >exists, >> >unfortunately. >> >> I just found out that something as simple as 'sh -c ls' was broken with >> my change. I've fixed that and am generating a new snapshot now. > >This fixed the problem make was having with the original patch :-) > >However I am seeing a new twist. > >When compiling a project from a rxvt shell using the native MingW compiler >an empty cmd window is launched at each invocation of cc1plus.exe, this >console closes automatically when cc1plus finishes. Corinna noticed something similar. I wonder why something is deciding that it needs to allocate a console. The latest snapshot may work better although I realized as I was driving to work that there will be some problems there too, especially with CYGWIN=tty. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/