On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Todd Vierling wrote:

> I haven't experienced this on my i386, so it is very odd.  But it may be a
> MI bug; I'm not sure. 
>
> [ programs that use raw I/O on ptys sometimes don't die on hangup ]

Todd, this is probably not a machine-dependent bug because I have seen it
happen quite often in FreeBSD-2.1.5.  It could be a bug in pine (which you
reported as one of the programs that behaves this way.), or it could be a
bug in the 4.4BSD pty handling code.

-J