Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!tness7!tness1!mechjgh
From: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney 214+464-2771)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: tty line discipline on 9820
Message-ID: <733@tness1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 22:53:26 GMT
References: <998@tness7.UUCP>
Reply-To: mechjgh@tness1.UUCP (Greg Hackney)
Organization: S.W. Bell, Network Engineering, Dallas
Lines: 18
Keywords: how to drop dtr

In article <998@tness7.UUCP> mechjgh@tness7.UUCP I write:

> Any ideas as to how to get DTR to drop when
> I log off with cntrl-d (getty running in att universe).
> "stty 0" will drop the connection, however cntrl-d doesn't.

I thought this was a bug, but it turns out to be a feature.

The port DOES disconnect properly, UNLESS a user process is still
running in the background. (I was running a mail check demon in
the background.)

RTOC says the tty is not closed, so the HUPCL (hang-up-on-close) does
not apply. It may be a feature, but is not consistent with other
machines I have worked with. A quirk I can live with.

--
Greg