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Subject: Re: ppp & HUP. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jul 1997 12:39:56 PDT."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> Tom wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > 
> > > According to what I read, the HUP was to allow processes to be able to
> > > exit gracefully (and more slowly, perhaps saving state) than the SIGTERM.
> > > I think the HUP is kinda historical.  I can't see a strong reason to kill
> > > it, because I've never personally seen a bug caused by it.
> > 
> >   Exactly what processes actually exit upon receiving a HUP?  Not many.
> > Apparently only some user processes.  Daemons NEVER exit, instead they
> > thrash the system.  Ugh.
> > 
> > 
> 
> shells exit on HUP but not TERM
> from my experience.

Shells are also usually spawned indirectly from ttys and get a HUP
for that reason.  Andrey isn't suggesting changing that behaviour.
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