[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#469950: login: su blocks SIGHUP

[Nicolas François]

Hello,


On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:33:54PM +1300, Jasen Betts wrote:
> 
> starting some tasks (eg: top - see Debian Bug #416976) in an xterm after 
> using su can lead to undesirable behavior if the xterm is closed.

That's arguably the case even without su ;)

> After a little testing, it seems that the child process never gets 
> the SIGHUP which it normally gets when su is not used (or it is used
> and logged out of) and then the xterm is closed 

su does not block any SIGHUP.

I did not follow #416976. Samuel and Thomas, do you think there were
anything wrong in the su behavior?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Nekral