Make Cygwin damons easier to use on Win9x.

[Robert Collins]

perhaps a combination? If the last console handle closes and setsid() has
already been called, || if setsid has been called and then the last console
handle is closed.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kazuhiro Fujieda" <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Make Cygwin damons easier to use on Win9x.


> >>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:21:07 -0400
> >>> Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> said:
>
> > I don't think that there is any simple heuristic for doing this but
> > I suppose that if you walk the fd table and find no open console handles
> > that it would be safe to detach the console after a setsid().
>
> I tried writing such code, but it made sshd unable to detach the
> console. Sshd call setsid() before closing the tty. I will try
> to find out another way, sigh...
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