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Re: Processes are unable to fully discard their controlling terminal


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:33:04PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:56PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> Processes that attempt to shed their controlling terminal do so
>>> well enough for the tty to show as ? in ps output, but they still
>>> keep the console window they were launched from open, after all
>>> other processes using it have exited.
>>> 
>>> This is particularly annoying with ssh-agent - if I exit the shell
>>> in the terminal that launched it, that terminal becomes a zombie,
>>> hanging around for no purpose. If I close that window using the
>>> Windows close box, the ssh-agent is killed.
>>> 
>>> I'm not an expert in the ways of Unix ttys. Can anyone help me
>>> understand where the problem lies?
>> 
>> setsid()
> 
> I think I see the problem.  It will be tricky to fix but I'll see
> what I can do.

Wow! Thanks!

You realize, you can no longer claim to be mean.... :-)


Max.


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