X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:21:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: select() hanging after terminal killed Message-ID: <20100429152142.GA30282@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <201004291053 DOT o3TAr15g018361 AT mail DOT bln1 DOT bf DOT nsn-intra DOT net> <20100429151100 DOT GU1845 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100429151100.GU1845@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 05:11:00PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 29 12:53, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> If a terminal gets killed, its tty/pty is not properly closed. >> This is likely to confuse applications and let them hang, as observed >> with mined (thanks Andy for the report) and joe. >> >> On Linux and SunOS, a subsequent read() return 0 (indicating EOF); >> any further read() returns -1, errno indicating EIO. >> Immediate write() may report success a few times, >> further write() returns -1, errno indicating EIO. >> >> On Linux, select() indicates an exception and EIO. >> On SunOS, select() indicates both an exception and input (weird), >> and ENOENT initially, EIO on further attempts. >> >> On Cygwin, the following is observed: >> * EOF is not signalled on read(); rather EIO is indicated right away. >> (Maybe not too bad, an application can handle that as well.) >> * select() with timeout hangs. >> >> Especially the latter can hardly be handled by an application. > >Can you create a simple testcase? Hmm. Since the owner has both sides of the pipe open maybe closing the slave side doesn't trigger select. It's possible that Corinna's changes to tty handling might make this work better. It would be interesting to see how this works in a recent snapshot. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple