GNU bug report logs - #21866
How to stop children of pty subprocesses from receiving a SIGHUP when main subprocess exits?

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Subject: How to stop children of pty subprocesses from receiving a SIGHUP when
 main subprocess exits?
From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@HIDDEN>
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While investigating a magit bug[1], we found that when a subprocess
with process-connection-type = pty ends, any subprocesses it has
spawned will receive a SIGHUP.

A simple way to see the problem is doing

   git config --global credential.help='cache --timeout=3600'

And then doing a "git push" to a password protected https remote twice
from M-x eshell. You will be asked for your password both times. The
same from M-x shell only asks the first time (note that after a
successful push from a normal shell, you won't be asked for a password
in eshell either because it can pick up existing daemons, it's just
that it always kills its own daemons).

For a self contained example, using the attached files:

   emacs -Q -l start-process-note-sighup.el

And notice that sighup.log contains "got sigup". Doing the same in
bash, a sighup is not sent if job control is on (the default for
interactive shells).

  xterm -e 'bash -c "set -m ; ./call-note-sighup"' ; cat sighup.log #
no sigup, do pkill note-sighup after
  xterm -e 'bash -c "set +m ; ./call-note-sighup"' ; cat sighup.log # sigup sent

We have a workaround for the git daemon situation, and I'm also
looking into possibly adding an option to git to ignore the sighup[2],
but I think it would make sense for Emacs to be able to avoid sending
sighup in this situation too. I poked around process.c a bit, but I
couldn't figure out where this signal gets sent from.

[1]: https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/2309
[2]: http://www.mail-archive.com/git%40vger.kernel.org/msg79211.html