Re: PTY dies when master in parent process is closed.

[Takashi Yano <takashi dot yano at nifty dot ne dot jp>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:48:29 +0100
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> I'm inclined to apply this patch.  I think using PeekNamedPipe this way
> is pretty nice, albeit it's not atomic.  It might be a good idea to add
> an acquire/release_output_mutex bracket, even if that doesn't help for
> cases in which a process holding a master fd crashes hard.
> 
> Since you suggested it, do you have another idea?

Nothing in particular.

> Off the top of my head what we could do:
> 
> - Either just set input_available_event always, unconditionally.  But
>   that probably requires to change fhandler_pty_slave::read as well.

The modification of fhandler_pty_slave::read() will be
probably not so small. To use PeekNamedPipe() or NtQueryObject()
is better, I suppose.
 
> - Or, use NtQueryObject to fetch the handle count of from_master (see
>   flock.cc function get_obj_handle_count()).  If the handle count is
>   one, we're the last process holding the handle and then we set
>   input_available_event.  But I'm not sure if it's really worth it.  The
>   PeekNamedPipe usage looks rather ok to me.

When NtQueryObject() is used, aim is clearer than using
PeekNamedPipe(). However, either is OK. Please choose one
which you like.

> Oh, btw.  Please always add the ChangeLog entries as plain text, not as
> diff.  ChangeLog diffs usually don't apply without manual intervention.

Thank you for your advice. Next time, I will do so.

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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