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Subject:  Re: Bash process remains after I close rxvt in certain ways
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:18:56 +0000 (UTC)
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Charles Wilson <cygwin <at> cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes:

> Or what *should* be happening.
> 
> So, I think that in src/command.c, right before exit() is called, rxvt 
> ought to kill its children -- except I thought exit() should do that 
> already?

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exit.html:
"Termination of a process does not directly terminate its children. The sending 
of a SIGHUP signal as described below indirectly terminates children in some 
circumstances.
...
"If the process is a controlling process, the SIGHUP signal shall be sent to 
each process in the foreground process group of the controlling terminal 
belonging to the calling process.
"If the process is a controlling process, the controlling terminal associated 
with the session shall be disassociated from the session, allowing it to be 
acquired by a new controlling process.
"If the exit of the process causes a process group to become orphaned, and if 
any member of the newly-orphaned process group is stopped, then a SIGHUP signal 
followed by a SIGCONT signal shall be sent to each process in the newly-
orphaned process group."

Sounds like you are right - rxvt should be a controlling process, so calling 
exit() should automatically cause cygwin to send SIGHUP to the process group, 
and rxvt shouldn't have to do any manual killing.

-- 
Eric Blake



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