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RE: [RFC] Fix expect leaky pipes
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 00:51:07 +0100
- Subject: RE: [RFC] Fix expect leaky pipes
On 29 May 2006 00:44, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:00:05AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> While I was at it, I restored the bit that cgf #if-0'd out a while ago; it
>> seems not to be causing any noticeable problems so far. Chris, can you
>> enlighten me a bit about what was going wrong there?
>
> I assume you're talking about the comment with a CGF on it. I don't
> recall what that was about.
>
> However, the changelog entry says:
>
> * fhandler_tty.cc (fhandler_tty_slave::dup): Don't assign a controlling
> terminal to a process when duped. Linux doesn't do this, so we won't
> either.
>
> So, I assume that my research was correct.
>
> cgf
Ah. I think the comment may not be correct, although the behaviour obviously enough is what we want if that's what Linux does.
cheers,
DaveK
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