tcsh left running after closing down X server

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> Jason Farrell Shepherd wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I just installed cygwin on my laptop running XP.  It seems
> > to be running fine, no problems with the install; however,
> > I noticed that if I start several xterms running tcsh, and
> > then close the XWin, the tcsh.exe files are still reported
> > by windows as utilizing memory from the windows task
> > manager.  Is this a known problem?
>
> Yes. And there is no simple fix. This sometimes happens on
> linux too since this is caused by the TCP/IP design.

That's a little unclear - most of the instances where a shell is left
orphaned seem to be because the SIGHUP doesn't propagate into an su'd
process.

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