Re: unfinished command executed when TTY is closed

[Piotr Grzybowski]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jiri Kukacka <jiri.kukacka@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> I investigated the bug, and I found that this happens when machine is too
> slow to send SIGHUP. This also happens when I open a terminal in GUI, and
> close the window (click X). To simulate this, one can just open XTerm
> window, ssh to any machine (even localhost), create a process tree long
> enough (just run bash in bash, depth of 6 was usually enough), type
> something like 'touch /tmp/thisShouldntExists' and close the window with
> terminal. Then in /tmp a file named thisShouldntExists appears. This is just
> a nondestructive test case, a a destructive one is noted above.

 what I did (bash 4.3.30):

1. two cores machine, loaded both cores 100%
2. logged in via ssh with xterm -e ssh xxxx
3. ran su - 16 times, each su - in the previous session created with su -
4. typed touch /tmp/noway
5. closed the xterm

 the file did not appear. can you copy-paste the exact replication
scenario? possibly with the script that triggers it for you?
 do you also need to fill the pending signals queue?
 I cant imagine how slow the machine should be to not be able to
deliver the signal on time?

cheers,
pg