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Re: [Patch] Fixing the PROCESS_DUP_HANDLE security hole.
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> With the current CVS, I am seeing the same (suboptimal) behavior on
> Windows Me that I do in 1.5.12.
>
> If I type a bunch of "sleep 60&" at the command line, then "bash" won't
> exit until the last sleep 60 has terminated. I can't explain why this
> is. It doesn't work that way on XP, of course.
>
> While "bash" is waiting, I see no sign of it in the process table so
> it's odd behavior.
1.5.12, the current official release? I have never observed it there.
Also my recollection is that the delay was not necessarily equal
to the sleep duration.
> The current CVS should work better with exim now, though.
Are you done with the changes? I will try a snapshot and look at the
code in the coming days. Not much free time currently.
Pierre