Subject: Re: ptys not freed?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@klondike.dachau.marco.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/01/1998 12:10:23
In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.971229084437.2175A-100000@like.duh.org>,
tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) writes:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, matthew green wrote:
>
>: as far as i'm aware, this is a bug in pine. get a better mailer. :-)
>
> Um, then tell me how Pine is capable of tricking the kernel into keeping its
> pty slave device even after the master side is closed, and why this doesn't
> happen under 1.2.1 (or 1.2F, for that matter)? And why tcsh can do it too,
> under tricky conditions?
Similar things happen to me from time to time on NetBSD/pc532 as well.
When my X-Terminal dies, I often get a pty with my old bash still running
after logging in again.
Matthias