It's critically important that the local proxy process should not

inherit _our_ ends of its I/O pipes! Otherwise, closing our copy of
those handles does not cause it to see EOF on its stdin, because
it's holding the pipe open itself.

[originally from svn r6808]

diff --git a/windows/winproxy.c b/windows/winproxy.c
index 329cb89330019428add10574d498b0beb5c880b6..24e68f8ae34d1aec25867565ce2ce67d91a7f347 100644 (file)
--- a/windows/winproxy.c
+++ b/windows/winproxy.c
@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ Socket platform_new_connection(SockAddr addr, char *hostname,
        return (Socket)ret;\r
     }\r
 \r
+    SetHandleInformation(us_to_cmd, HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT, 0);\r
+    SetHandleInformation(us_from_cmd, HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT, 0);\r
+\r
     si.cb = sizeof(si);\r
     si.lpReserved = NULL;\r
     si.lpDesktop = NULL;\r