orphaned child processes with rxvt

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:38:08PM -0500, Steve O wrote:
>> If I hit the "close" button in the window rather than typing "exit", rxvt
>> cleans up.. but there is still an "ssh" process alive and well sucking up 3
>> megs of ram.
>
>I was looking into this last night.  The rxvt source doesn't seem
>to do any process management on exit, which says to me that 
>the authors expect the child process to die when the parent
>dies. 
>
>So the question is, why are rxvt spawned processes under cygwin
>detached from their parents, whereas on other systems they aren't.
>Any ideas?

In theory, child processes in a process group should be receiving a SIGHUP
on exit.  Does ssh die on a SIGHUP?

Running rxvt under strace might be instructive.

cgf

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