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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:00:42 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ale@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mysqld_safe holding open a pty/tty on FreeBSD (7.x and 8.x)
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimurocZj2F8-u3Vfin0pbNJZ9xd5EzVmciwGt_%2B@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100930065151.GA9634@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <20100930065151.GA9634@icarus.home.lan>

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On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>wrote:

> Something interesting I've come across which happens on both RELENG_7
> and RELENG_8 (indicating it's not a problem with the older tty code or
> the newer pty/pts code), and it's reproducible on Linux (sort of...).
>
> mysqld_safe appears to hold a pty/tty open even after the process has
> been backgrounded.  I can understand how/why this might occur, just not
> in this particular case.
>

Actually cam across this the other day:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2010-July/062417.html

It appears you aren't the only one to notice the issue.

-- 
Adam Vande More



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