> Description:
> Regradless of the huponexit setting ('shopt -s huponexit' doesn't
> help) bash does not send SIGHUP to its children when it receives one
> itself. Previous version of bash 3.1.17 was behaving properly
> even with huponexit set to off
>
> Repeat-By:
> launch rxvt, launch mc then close the rxvt window ->
> mc is still running with CPU to 100% (this is because
> mc tries to read from stdin while receiving EOF)
> Closing rxvt sends SIGHUP to bash but bash doesn't send
> SIGHUP to its children
Can you verify using a system call tracer that bash is not sending the SIGHUP?
The default bash SIGHUP signal handler resends SIGHUP to all jobs, running or
stopped, before exiting.
Chet
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