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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk!robinson.ecs.soton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bob Kemp) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [???BSD] Shell keeps running after modem hangs up Date: 21 Jun 1993 10:19:37 +0100 Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 28 Message-ID: <203uf9$gvb@robinson.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <weisss.740482273@hphalle2> <20210m$1k0@werple.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: robinson.ecs.soton.ac.uk Keywords: com, getty, shell, HUP, login In <20210m$1k0@werple.apana.org.au> andrew@werple.apana.org.au (Andrew Herbert) writes: >weisss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Stefan Weiss) writes: > >[description of HUP signal not being sent by com driver] > >>Didn't anyone notice this before? Or am I too blind to see an obvious >>solution to this problem? I've several times had something similar when using X11. If I need to quit out of X11 with (say) kermit running (talking to modem) then when I login again the kermit is still there and accepting input. The difference is that kermit doesn't realise that the pseudo tty has "gone away". Shouldn't it have its stdin set to /dev/null? I _think_ it has also happened with other programs, not just kermit. The reason for having to quit out of X11 sometimes is that it seems to start ignoring keybd input after a while (1-2hrs??). Perhaps connected with inactivity or screen blanking? Has anybody else seen this? Bob (using 0.1 + 0.2.3) -- Robert Kemp Internet: rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk Phone: (0703) 59 31 22 ECS Dept, Southampton Univ, Highfield, Southampton, S09 5NH, UK "Rose bushes have thorns; thorn bushes bear roses"