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- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 93 19:25:41 -0400
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: nox@jelal.north.de
- In-Reply-To: Juergen Lock's message of Wed, 14 Jul 93 17:22:36 CES <9307141522.AA00256@jelal.north.de>
- Subject: `hanging' pipes and zeroed tty pgroups...
-
- > quoted from dosmem.c, line 707:
- >
- >>/* release the controlling terminal, if we're a process group leader */
- >> fp = curproc->handle[-1];
- >> if (fp && is_terminal(fp) && curproc->pgrp == curproc->pid) {
- >> struct tty *tty = (struct tty *)fp->devinfo;
- >> if (curproc->pgrp == tty->pgrp)
- >> tty->pgrp = 0;
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > i think this is a bug :-)
- >
- > no patch because i'm not sure what exactly to do here (well search for
- >another process that has the same ctty, but in what order... anyone?)
- >but you can reproduce the effect when you do something like `sh -c ps |less'
- >(tried with BSD sh and ksh) and then try to interrupt or stop less with
- >^C or ^Z. either nothing happens (running on /dev/fasttext) or you kill
- >everything (running on toswin)...
-
- I think I'm responsible for that code. It was supposed to be a fix
- for the buggy job control code, which has been removed from MiNT.
- That code used a pgrp of 0 on a tty to indicate that it was "up for
- grabs" (the next process to read/write on the tty would become the tty
- owner).
-
- I think it can be safely commented out now. There should not be any
- need to change the process group at all, it should be OK to just leave
- it in owned by the exited process.
-
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