Bug 208079

Summary:	gpm keeps stdin/out/err file descriptors open after detaching from terminal
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Milan Zázrivec <mzazrivec>
Component:	gpm	Assignee:	Petr Rockai <prockai>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Milan Zázrivec 2006-09-26 10:28:45 UTC

Description of problem:
gpm daemon keeps stdin/out/err open after detaching 
itself from terminal, causing eg. pipes from initscript
to hang for the lifetime of gpm.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.20.1-74.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
/etc/init.d/gpm stop;
perl -e 'open F,"/etc/init.d/gpm start|"; my @out=<F>; close F;'

Comment 1 Petr Rockai 2006-09-26 10:55:04 UTC

Gpm currently fails to build in brew (!?), the fix is in cvs for now.

Comment 2 Petr Rockai 2006-09-26 12:11:26 UTC

Worked this time.