It was fixed in https://github.com/mej/Eterm/commit/4b35c31087048af38083a5a0273ab5a72064626b several years before your bug report.
maybe not the desired behaviour on website... just thought i would mention it. http://eterm.org/index.html --> https://sourceforge.net/projects/eterm/ http://eterm.org/ --> blank page
<Originally, it="" was="" a="" letter="" which="" I="" couldn't="" send,="" so="" I'm="" trying="" here=""> Hi, I'd like to ask you to merge the attached patch into Eterm-0.9.6/src/command.c -- the problem it fixes occurs when ulimit -n >= 65536, and the 16-bit cycle variable overflows. Yours: LĹ‘rinczy Zsigmond --- command.corig 2011-03-16 07:05:03.000000000 +0100 +++ command.c 2017-04-26 11:13:11.292718329 +0200 @@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ * child processes remain alive upon deletion of the window. */...