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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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