Re: [9fans] 'stuck' windows.

["Sander van Dijk" <a.h.vandijk@gmail.com>]

On 6/22/08, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> It is not waiting for dossrv to exit,
> so much as it is waiting for all the open
> file descriptors referring to that window's
> /dev/cons to be closed.  Dossrv just happens
> to be the one holding them.
>
> Probably the various dossrv'ing scripts should run
>
> 	dossrv </dev/null >/dev/null >[2=1]

But that's what 9fat: does (well, not literally, since it does 'dossrv
>/dev/null </dev/null >[2]/dev/null', but it means the same). So then
dossrv shouldn't be holding the window's /dev/cons open, right?

>> Has it always been this way
>
> I think it has.

I just found an old cdrom (20070810), and it happens there as well, so
I guess my memory was playing tricks on me here.

Greetings, Sander.