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Re: SIGHUP on pty closure


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

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