There was a bit of a race condition depending on whether uxpty spotted
the EOF/EIO on the process's output first, or the SIGCHLD for its
actual termination: if the former came first, it would never bother to
reap the exit code at all.
It still doesn't bother if it's closing the session immediately and
the process genuinely _hasn't_ died (say, if it detaches itself
completely from the controlling tty to run in the background like a
weird parody of an old DOS TSR). But now when we see EOF, we make an
immediate (but nonblocking) attempt to wait for the child process, in
case its exit code was already available and we just hadn't noticed
yet.