From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Occasional hang with CYGWIN32=tty?
20 Feb 1998 02:00:12 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD3DEA.C6124690.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'cgf AT bbc DOT com'" <cgf AT bbc DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> which closes down the tty thread if it was created in this process but
> this the function will block waiting for the tty use count to == 0.  I
> think that something is incrementing the tty use count and not
> subsequently decrementing it.

The one place I see is a fork code - dup_for_fork() increments use count, but if fork fails for some reasons, the count is not decremented.

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