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Re: YA snapshot available [Re: new snapshot with some tty/WinMe fixes]
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:21:35PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:52:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:05:53PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> >H:\>gcc try_forksetsid.c
>> >
>> >H:\>sh -c "./a"
>> >waiting for children using tty0 to terminate
>> >waiting for children using tty0 to terminate
>> >
>> >It's motivated by a weirdness I saw last night with exim, where the
>> >setsid() is present.
>>
>> Did my latest cvs checkin fix this? It seems to for me but I don't have
>> time for extensive testing.
>
>It does, but when I uncomment the setsid() in the program and run from
>command.com, sh -c ./a.exe stays in the foreground (no prompt) when
>CYGWIN=notty. Things are OK with CYGWIN=tty.
A fix to fhandler_console::close seems to rectify this behavior. Strange
that it worked ok on XP.
cgf
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