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From: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: "Closing" control tty
Message-ID: <3819@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 16:18:14 GMT
Reply-To: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally)
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Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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Here are several questions:

1)  Why is the TIOCNOTTY ioctl not documented?  Or maybe, why is it
    not documented in tty(4)?  Is there a better way of ending the
    current control tty association?

2)  Has anyone noticed problems with select and pty's, in that if
    a select (for input) is being performed on the master end of
    a pty, and the child is closed because its process dies, the
    select hangs?  I of course could be confused; it's pretty 
    hard to tell what's going on in situations like this.

3)  Is there a good way of getting rid of "<exiting>" processes
    which are stuck on pty's and thus make the pty's unavailable?
    Seems like this question has been asked a lot recently, in
    some form or other.  My guess is "sure there's an easy way:
    reboot."

-- 
Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems

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