From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 10 23:39:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arnold.neland.dk (mail.neland.dk [194.255.12.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153FD14E30 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 23:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00923; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:36:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@swimsuit.internet.dk) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 08:36:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland X-Sender: leifn@arnold.neland.dk To: Joel Ray Holveck Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Baud rate of 0 In-Reply-To: <199904110345.WAA00963@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > Why does setting the baud rate of a (wired tty) connection to 0 > terminate it? When is this useful? > Why shouldn't it? How else would you terminate it? Or rather, it is easier to do it this way, than to find pid's running on that line, and kill 'em separately. I could think of many reasons for wanting to terminate a terminal session. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message