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

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 14:21 , Magnus Ringman wrote:

> Ah, yes - my bad.  We agree!
> My poor brain stem objected to the use of SIGHUP for losing master, on
> grounds that a hangup is a perfetly valid terminal event.
> Invalidating the fd is the important point.

Yeh, I was unclear:  I said "hangup", intending not SIGHUP but vhangup 
() (but recalling that freebsd doesn't do vhangup() so not calling it  
such).

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