GNU bug report logs - #28268
26.0.50; (MS Windows) crash on C-g after closing Git GUI

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Message #50 received at 28268 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28268 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: bug#28268: 26.0.50;
 (MS Windows) crash on C-g after closing Git GUI
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:28:12 +0300

> From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:02:33 +0100
> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>, 28268 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > It looks like not entirely our problem, or not at all: Windows itself
> > thinks that the process is still running, although waiting on its
> > handle to become signaled exits immediately, something that should
> > never happen.
> 
> Could it be that the (wish) subprocess inherited its parents' STDIN
> and STDOUT handles and so the process can't completely die until
> the subprocess does?

No, because closing wish doesn't stop the loop.

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