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Re: mintty hangs after exit
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:03:32 +0300
- Subject: Re: mintty hangs after exit
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Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
> Am 22.08.2015 um 06:31 schrieb Sam Edge:
>> On 22/08/2015 05:05, John Hein wrote:
>>> Andrey Repin wrote at 02:05 +0300 on Aug 22, 2015:
>>> > Just noticed a weird thing. Wonder if anyone can confirm or deny the issue.
>>> >
>>> > 1. Start mintty as `mintty.exe -` (i.e. login shell)
>>> > 2. Execute a command. S.a. "ssh anywhere"
>>> > 3. Exit all running apps. I.e. ^D out of all shells.
>>> > 4. mintty remains running.
>>> > There's no more child processes of it, nothing. It's just stuck around.
>>>
>>> I see that on occasion, but haven't pinned down reliable conditions
>>> for reproducing the symptom. I'm using tcsh as shell (I'm not
>>> claiming a correlation necessarily). What if you hit enter in the
>>> hung window? That usually kicks things into gear causing the process
>>> / window to go away here.
>>>
>>> (I miss 'wchan' in ps output to give a clue what the process is
>>> doing / waiting on.)
>>>
>> I've had exactly the same problem for some time now.
> For weeks? Months? Since which version?
I couldn't say for myself, as I normally use PuTTY for my SSH needs.
But I've had a trouble readjusting my setup for updated OpenSSH and stumbled
upon this issue.
And yes, it seems to only happen with OpenSSH.
And pressing Enter in a stalled mintty window forces it to close.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, August 22, 2015 20:02:00
Sorry for my terrible english...
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