Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage and SIGHUP

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Fabian Groffen wrote:
> I recently noticed this:
> 
> (pegasus:portage/dev-libs/poppler) fabian% emerge --resume
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> *** Resuming merge...
> 
>>>> Verifying ebuild manifests
> 
>>>> Starting parallel fetch
> 
>>>> Emerging (1 of 9) dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.7
>  * libgpg-error-1.7.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...              [ ok ]
>  * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                     [ ok ]
>  * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                    [ ok ]
>  * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                   [ ok ]
>>>> Unpacking source...
>>>> Unpacking libgpg-error-1.7.tar.bz2 to /net/pegasus.ins.cwi.nl/export/scratch/stripe/fabian/gentoo/prefix64/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.7/work
>  * Running eautoreconf in '/net/pegasus.ins.cwi.nl/export/scratch/stripe/fabian/gentoo/prefix64/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.7/work/libgpg-error-1.7' ...
>  * Running aclocal -I m4 -I /net/pegasus.ins.cwi.nl/export/scratch/stripe/fabian/gentoo/prefix64/usr/share/aclocal ...
> Hangup
> (pegasus:portage/dev-libs/poppler) fabian%
> 
> e.g. Portage terminating immediately on a SIGHUP.  If I sent SIGHUP myself to
> Portage from another shell it immediately stops as well.
> 
> Can some one Linux try to reproduce this?  I tested it by doing emerge -av portage and from another terminal SIGHUP that emerge.

Well, what else would you expect from SIGHUP? It's supposed to mean
that the terminal has been lost, right? That's what it says here:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP

If you want a program to continue running after the terminal is
lost, then you're supposed to do something like use nohup or run it
inside of a screen session.
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Thanks,
Zac
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