On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Neither kernel kills the child process, but Linux allows it to exit
> immediately whereas FreeBSD appears to make it block on exit if it has
> output buffered in a pipe.  This behaviour is useful because it
> guarantees that the parent will receive the child's output and its exit
> code in the 'right' order.  However, I think that either behaviour is
> acceptable.

So, it isn't a bug (and certainly not a bug in Expect which just get what kernel
send to it)? Then I'll close the bugreport and will send your explanation to
the upstream. Thanks for clarification!

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan



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