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Date:               Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:26:07 CST
From:      "Hector Gonzalez Jaime." <CACHO@mexicano.gdl.iteso.mx>
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:         Re: That annoying pty problem again...
Message-ID:  <199509291826.MAA25542@cecusac.gdl.iteso.mx>

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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.
> 

I get this same problem with getty and users that turn off their 
modems to hangup.

Hector Gonzalez Jaime.
Iteso, Guadalajara, Mexico.
cacho@mexicano.gdl.iteso.mx



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