On Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Jeremy Cooper 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.

Well, I doubt it's a bug in pine, because:

- a program whose master pty closes should have its slave side revoke(2)'d,
  such that it no longer has access to the device, regardless of whether
  the process actually dies;

- Pine isn't the only program that does this, but it's the easiest to
  reproduce in my experience.

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