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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: No subject
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 22:10:15 -0400

philw@pla... writes:
| >Why does this happen...  I run dossrv, and then exit, and the shell
| >doesn't go away until dossrv is killed from another window.  
| the dossrv is holding a reference to the files supplied by the
| window system (eg. /dev/cons). Windows are cleared up by
| reference counting.

That sounds like a bug.  But why doesn't ftpfs suffer the same
symptoms?  On the other hand, even
	sleep 10 >[0]/tmp/zz >[1]/tmp/zz >[2]/tmp/zz >[3]/tmp/zz &
makes the window stick around; what files is that holding open?
It should be none, right?