Bug 208079 - gpm keeps stdin/out/err file descriptors open after detaching from terminal
Summary: gpm keeps stdin/out/err file descriptors open after detaching from terminal
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gpm
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Petr Rockai
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-26 10:28 UTC by Milan Zázrivec
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-09-26 12:11:26 UTC
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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.
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