Aucbvax.4274
fa.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards
Tue Oct  6 12:56:02 1981
stty -hup
>From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Tue Oct  6 11:31:53 1981
In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin
Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phone: (919) 966-3305

Why is there no way to turn off hup for a terminal?  My best guess is
that it's to prevent people from hanging around when the administration says
"go".  But in that case, I'd think there'd be a privileged ioctl() to turn
off hup.  Anyone have any ideas on this?

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