so-called-hang-on-exit

[Craig J Copi]

Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com writes:
>
>I meant, what is the difference in behaviour in technical terms.
>
>E.g., "the BSD pty master gets EOF as soon as all processes in the pty's
>controlling process group exit, whereas on Linux the pty master EOFs
>only when there are no open file descriptors for the pty."
>
>And what server-side, user-level heuristic could "correct" for this
>difference?

I believe that is the question nobody has answered.  There have
been calls for someone to look into the guts (presumably kernel) and
figure out what is going on.

Craig