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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Killing the correct process
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Date: 2 Mar 90 16:01:52 GMT
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In article <5724@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>So what?  From `man init' on SunOS 4.0.3c:
>
>	init catches the hangup signal (SIGHUP) and interprets it to
>	mean  that  the  file /etc/ttytab should be read again.
>
>"Boo hiss!  SIGHUP is for signaling a hangup on a terminal line!"

Yeah.  It's crufty all right, but when was the last time
init made a phone call?

				--Blair
				  "Holee-- ALASKA!?"