Your message dated Wed, 20 May 2026 22:41:23 +0200
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and subject line Delayed window close is intentional - Closing as wontfix
has caused the Debian Bug report #713919,
regarding screen: Window exit hangs when fd 0~2 are open in a backgrounded
process
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Package: screen
Version: 4.1.0~20120320gitdb59704-7
Severity: normal
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In squeeze, doing the following caused a screen window to close promptly:
sleep 1000 & exit
However, in wheezy, it hangs for a few seconds (not 1000 seconds) before
closing. Troubleshooting this points to backgrounded processes that have
file descriptors open to the pty. When they are closed as below, the screen
window will close promptly:
</dev/null sleep 1000 >/dev/null 2>&1 & exit
As I use screen to launch new GUI apps in the background and immediately
close the window, this makes it a bit disconcerting when it stays around
for a while in the window list.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.9.5+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages screen depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.10
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii libc6 2.13-38
ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7.1
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
screen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages screen suggests:
pn iselect | screenie | byobu <none>
- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/screenrc changed:
deflogin on
vbell on
vbell_msg " Wuff ---- Wuff!! "
defscrollback 1024
bind ^k
bind ^\
bind \\ quit
bind K kill
bind I login on
bind O login off
bind } history
termcapinfo vt100 dl=5\E[M
hardstatus off
hardstatus string "%h%? users: %u%?"
termcapinfo xterm*|linux*|rxvt*|Eterm* OP
termcapinfo xterm 'is=\E[r\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?1;4;6l'
defnonblock 5
- -- no debconf information
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tags 713919 + wontfix upstream
thanks
Hi Daniel,
Upstream commit 33b7c9c ("Wait a bit before killing a window")
introduced an intentional delay before window destruction so that
trailing output is not truncated when the child exits. See upstream bug
#27061: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27061
This is not Debian-specific; it is an upstream design choice.
I'm closing this report as wontfix.
Cheers,
Peter Dey
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