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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: tty and the cygwin server
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:14:15 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>

> >My question is, what occurs between accept_input and
> >process_slave_output in rxvt that could result in ash (the slave)
> >quitting? I can't get a strace of the slaves behaviour so far, which
is
> >why I'm turning for inspiration here...
>
> Probably it is looking like stdin (the pty) is being closed for some
> reason.  That seems to be what's happening from the strace.  Or it has
> received a signal?  You should be able to attach to the process via
gdb
> and watch it happen.

Thanks. I had similar thoughts, but couldn't say why that would occur.

Rob