Re: Bash crashes on detaching Screen

[Chet Ramey]

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On 12/2/14, 12:59 PM, Darshit Shah wrote:

>> However, when I attempted the same from a virtual Terminal instead of an
>> emulator, upon remotely detaching the screen session, my terminal
>> directly displayed a login prompt again. This leads me to believe that
>> Bash did crash even then and caused the login prompt to reappear.
>>
>>
> 
> I just recompiled my Bash with debugging symbols and attempted to run Bash
> under gdb. Here is the trace I received:
> 
> 
> [remote power detached from 19442.pts-1.mordor]
> 
> Program received signal SIGHUP, Hangup.

The shell received SIGHUP, presumably sent by screen or the vty driver.
SIGHUP is a fatal signal; the shell catches it, cleans up, restores the
default signal handler, and resends SIGHUP to itself, which results in
bash exiting due to the SIGHUP.

This is not a bug.

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