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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: That annoying pty problem again...
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I've been getting it from people quitting telnet sessions without exiting the
program they were running.

When you close a PTY, what should happen is you get a SIGHUP, and further reads
from the PTY get EOF.

I suspect that some programs ignore both these events.