What do you think ?: How should pseundo terminals behave ...

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 7:39 , Justin Hibbits wrote:

>
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 05:33 , Martin Blapp wrote:
>> 3.) Detect that there is no master around anymore and
>>     return ENXIO:
>>
>>     # echo "BLUBBER" > /dev/ttypX
>>     # /dev/ttypX: Device not configured
>>
>>     (easy to do, i've got a fix. IMHO this is the best thing to
>>     do. This allows fast error recovery in case the master
>>     has been gone away)

3a) Hangup all processes attached to the client and switch them to  
some kind of "dead" inode (which could be a fixed entity since all  
operations on it except close() fail).  (Don't real ttys do this?)   
Dunno how easy this would be.

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