SIGHUP on pty closure

[marco atzeri]

On 12/13/2011 5:36 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 07:27:23PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 25/07/2011 19.05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "sleeping and waiting for signal" would mean that "bash is not waiting
>>> for input".  If bash isn't waiting for input that would explain the
>>> problem.  However, I would expect that bash, in this scenario, to be
>>> waiting for input.  I was hoping you'd provide insight into whether that
>>> was the case or not.
>>>
>>> cgf
>>
>> Sorry, I will try to be more clear, for what I understood of mc.
>>
>> With CTRL-O the foreground is switched between mc and bash
>> (or viceversa) , so when mc is on foreground bash is not
>> waiting for input, but for a signal to wake up again.
>>
>> Mc exits following F10 key press and bash should follow
>> when it receives SIGHUP.
>
> I tracked down a place where SIGHUP was not getting sent correctly
> so I may have fixed this in recent snapshots.  No guarantees though.
>
> cgf
>

Hi cgf,
latest CVS seems to work, I will test more in the coming days.
Thanks.

Not related, but building the test case (on latest CVS)
I noticed a pipe fault.
---------------------------------------------------------
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/pub/devel/mc/prova/mc-4.7.5.4-1/build/lib/search'
   CC     libsearch_la-search.lo
   CC     libsearch_la-lib.lo
   CC     libsearch_la-normal.lo
   CC     libsearch_la-regex.lo
   CC     libsearch_la-glob.lo
make[3]: *** read jobs pipe: Bad address.  Stop.
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/pub/devel/mc/prova/mc-4.7.5.4-1/build/lib/search'
----------------------------------------------------------
the machine was building two programs at the same time with
additional tasks running so a bit loaded.

Regards
Marco

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