Mintty Log Off problem (now 1.7.16s)

[Ryan Johnson]

On 29/05/2012 2:27 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 29 May 2012 13:57, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>> On 28/05/2012 1:32 PM, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/18/12 11:28, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
>>>> I've found a little more information -- this problem goes away
>>>> if I change my default shell to dash.  Seems tcsh is involved somehow.
>>>> It comes back when I change my default shell back to tcsh.
>>>> Going back to tcsh 6.18.00-2 does not help.
>>>>
>>>> Given the deathly silence to my request below, I must be the only
>>>> one experiencing this, but it happens on both of my machines.
>>>>
>>>>      Harry
>>>>
>>>> On 02/15/12 10:43, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote:
>>>>> With Cygwin 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) upon logging off Windows XP SP3
>>>>> I get a pop-up window "End Program - C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe"
>>>>> with a "End Now" and "Cancel" button every time I log off
>>>>> Windows and I have somewhere in that Windows session run
>>>>> the Mintty shortcut which has "C:\cygwin\bin\mintty -u -"
>>>>> in it and my default shell is tcsh. This never happened
>>>>> with previous Cygwin releases. What's even more interesting
>>>>> is that in all cases I exit all my programs before logging
>>>>> off, including the mintty window. I've even tried hitting
>>>>> the "Cancel" button and then looking for a process named
>>>>> mintty or "Terminal" (since that's what mintty's description
>>>>> is and that is used by some process tools) with both Process Explorer
>>>>> and Task Manager, but I can find no such process -- and then
>>>>> when I try to log off again not having found such a process
>>>>> the pop-up comes back and I can't log off until I hit
>>>>> "End Now".
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I haven't seen any reports of this on this list, I must
>>>>> be about the only one this is happening to. Any clues as to
>>>>> what I can do to find out what Windows is actually failing to stop
>>>>> when I try to log off having run mintty beforehand?
>>> I'm puzzled why others aren't seeing this or aren't reporting it,
>>> but this problem seems to be back with 1.7.15 and I've now tried
>>> the latest snapshot (May 25) and it's back there too. It occurred
>>> with 1.7.10 and then got fixed, but now it seems to be back.
>> I routinely encounter mintty windows that don't close after I exit the login
>> shell they run (even though they contain no visible child processes), but
>> they can still be closed using the big red "X" in the corner...
> Mintty closes when it gets an EOF from the underlying pseudo terminal
> device. This happens when there are no more processes connected to it.
> The Cygwin console behaves similarly, but other terminal emulators do
> not: they close once the direct child process exits no matter whether
> other processes are still connected.
>
> Backgrounding a process with '&' or nohupping it doesn't break that
> connection, but invoking it through the 'setsid' utility from the
> util-linux package does.
That's about what I figured, which is why I'd never worried before. 
Although I will say I've sometimes had trouble figuring out what cygwin 
process might be keeping the mintty alive...

Ryan

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