TCL exec kills its owning tty (was: Unable to initialize fd 0 for /dev/tty1)

[Ryan Johnson]

  On 9/6/2010 11:34 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> The last couple days I've gotten some really strange errors. Sometimes 
> I'll alt-tab to an xterm window and start typing, only to have it 
> disappear at the first keystroke. Sometimes `emacs -nw' will get hit 
> instead, leaving both emacs and the xterm pretty much unusable. I 
> haven't been able to get a stack trace
I can reproduce this bug reliably with both 1.7.7 and 1.7.6 versions of 
cygwin1.dll (which makes me suspect the problem is not there).

The reason I couldn't get a stack trace is because the xterm doesn't 
receive an error... it just gets an EOF and dutifully exits. Sometimes 
you can see 'exit' appear just before the window closes.

After some digging, it looks like TCL is the culprit (recall I was 
running tkdiff). Here's a minimal test case, which will close its 
controlling tty when it exits:

$ echo 'exec ls' > tty-killer; tclsh tty-killer &

Running the script in the foreground, passing it as a -c argument to 
bash, or piping it into tclsh, does *not* expose the bug.

Ideas?
Ryan



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