SIGHUP on pty closure

[Marco atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

looking on the mc subshell issue, I found that mc
suppose that the subshell will receive a SIGHUP
when mc exit and close the master side of pty.

Is such assumption wrong or it is a missing piece of
cygwin pty implementation ?



------------- extract from subshell.c --------------
    /* Attach all our standard file descriptors to the pty */

    /* This is done just before the fork, because stderr must still      */
    /* be connected to the real tty during the above error messages; */
    /* otherwise the user will never see them.                   */

    dup2 (subshell_pty_slave, STDIN_FILENO);
    dup2 (subshell_pty_slave, STDOUT_FILENO);
    dup2 (subshell_pty_slave, STDERR_FILENO);

    close (subshell_pipe[READ]);
    close (subshell_pty_slave); /* These may be FD_CLOEXEC, but just in 
case... */
    /* Close master side of pty.  This is important; apart from */
    /* freeing up the descriptor for use in the subshell, it also       */
    /* means that when MC exits, the subshell will get a SIGHUP and     */
    /* exit too, because there will be no more descriptors pointing     */
    /* at the master side of the pty and so it will disappear.  */
    close (subshell_pty);

    /* Execute the subshell at last */

    switch (subshell_type)
    {
    case BASH:
        execl (shell, "bash", "-rcfile", init_file, (char *) NULL);
        break;
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