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On 10/6/2011 9:29 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> I understand what you say you did.  There was no reason to reexplain.
>
> Once again, I don't understand why Cygwin's current implementation is
> inadequate to handle the problem that you are seeing.  You can assert
> that it must be because Cygwin does not explicitly send a SIGHUP on
> close and you may be right but, again, I don't see why the current
> implementation, which should amount to the same thing, does not work.
>
> Yes.  It isn't explicitly implemented but it shouldn't matter.
>
> cgf

OK, we are on the same page.

If I find some time, I will try to build a test case for it.
But time is scarce and this is not a priority

thanks
Marco

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