mintty hangs after exit

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Sat Aug 22 04:54:00 GMT 2015


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?
Thomas

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