hang on exit

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Feb 14 08:43:36 EST 2002


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Frank Cusack wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 08:32:26PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > untested, as i don't have access to a system that
> > shows the hang-on-exit problem.
> 
> > +	options->allow_data_loss_on_pty = -1;
> 
> Can someone explain why this has been discouraged for a long time based
> on it "allowing data loss", when on obsd it does this by default? 

Does OpenBSD do it? To my knowledge no-one has heeded my request to 
investigate this fully.

-d




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