YA snapshot available [Re: new snapshot with some tty/WinMe fixes]

Pierre A. Humblet pierre.humblet@ieee.org
Sat Jan 17 03:49:00 GMT 2004


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.

Pierre

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