Aucbvax.4274 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Tue Oct 6 12:56:02 1981 stty -hup >From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Tue Oct 6 11:31:53 1981 In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Phone: (919) 966-3305 Why is there no way to turn off hup for a terminal? My best guess is that it's to prevent people from hanging around when the administration says "go". But in that case, I'd think there'd be a privileged ioctl() to turn off hup. Anyone have any ideas on this? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.