[TUHS] 4.3BSD help: getty ignoring modem status

[lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)]

This sounds like a setsid() like problem.  As in the server is not 
cleaning up.  BSD didn't have setsid, I think that was a POSIX thing
and it was one of the good things that POSIX added.  That's my 
memory, someone will correct it.

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 03:57:36PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Hi all, over on the uucp project we are struggling with a problem. If a
> user is logged in with telnet, and they disconnect the telnet session,
> their shell hangs around. The next person that telnets in gets the shell.
> 
> SimH, with the -a -m flags on a simulated DZ line, has these modem flags:
> 
> Telnet connected:    Modem Bits: DTR RTS DCD CTS DSR
> Telnet disconnected: Modem Bits: DTR RTS         DSR
> 
> So, DCD and CTS are being dropped, but getty (or something) isn't responding
> and (presumably) sending a HUP signal to the shell.
> 
> Is there anybody with some modem or getty knowledge that can help?
> 
> Thanks, Warren



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