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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: ache@nagual.pp.ru, brian@awfulhak.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ppp & HUP.
Cc: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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>If nobody will explain why this HUP is neded (hanging shells perfectly
>killed by SIGKILL), I'll remove HUP sending from init.

SIGHUP may have been to allow shells to propagate SIGHUP to children.
There may still be some problems here for parts of the process tree
not killed by the death of the controlling process.  Perhaps shells
do a more complete job of propagating the SIGHUP?

Bruce