Re: Processes are unable to fully discard their controlling terminal

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

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.

cgf

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