More notes on client exit causing 100% cpu usage

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed Apr 4 14:22:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 11:41:28AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
>Suhaib,
>
>Yup, that is with test 15.
>
>Typing 'exit' into an xterm doesn't cause this everytime... it appears to be
>a race condition so your mileage will vary depending on how fast your
>machine and its various subsystems are.
>
>Sometimes I get lucky and the first xterm will crash when I exit it, but
>usually I have to open and close about ten xterms before I can get one to
>crash on exit.
>
>Note that this happens with rxvt as well...

Does this happen with a recent Cygwin snapshot?  I wonder if this could
be a pty race that was recently fixed.

cgf



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