On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:04:33PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 03:56:06AM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote: >>>>> On 05 Oct 2001 23:21:20 +0900 >>>>> Kazuhiro Fujieda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> The same logic should also solve it on xterm. I guess another >>> bug disturbs it. As you may know, Cygwin DLL 1.3.3 has a bug >>> related to the inheritance of file descriptors in fork. It is >>> fixed in the recent development snapshots. >> >>I'm sorry. I found the logic was insufficient to solve the >>problem on xterm. The following patch should solve it. >>I feel these changes are cheap tricks. I'll make a radical >>cure in the near future. > >Hmm. I'm not sure that I understand the logic here. I understand why >this would cure the problem with xterm since it uses a pty, but you're >now saying that if a process is using ptys it should not free its >console. That seems sort of arbitrary. > >I know that you know this. I'm just stating it "out loud". > >Of course, having said it out loud, I have no idea how to fix this any >other way, either. > >I'll probably end up checking this in but I'd like to think about it a >little first. Please bug me in a couple of days if it seems like I've >forgotten about it.
As expected, I couldn't come up with a "better" way of dealing with this problem so I've checked in Kazuhiro's patch. Thanks, as always, Kazuhiro. cgf
