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From: "Hector Gonzalez Jaime." <CACHO@mexicano.gdl.iteso.mx>
Organization:  ITESO university.
To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Date:          Fri, 29 Sep 1995 12:26:07 CST
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.
> 

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