-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/2/2013 12:02 PM, Karel Zak wrote: > never ending orphans suck... Yes, but the idea is not to orphan them in the first place and wait for them to terminate instead. > The possible solution (hack) to emulate end-of-file is by write > "exit\n" to the master tty. For example patch below works for me > (it also make it more robust for non-ttys). That only works if the program on the other end knows what "exit" means, which is basically only true if it's a shell. Surely there must be a proper way to signal EOF over a pty? Can you use shutdown() on a pty? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSnMwNAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwwvYH+wRd0hXZwZKhElWgpLIjWNOO 82ulPzt1Cld085qllaG8VvO0CSN3JERHD5Eo8iB+YIuI32lNO2dGuGw0MwYJ72cn whUEqT7BNcnDCDqhPba/ZYcGJ8mCp+3+58BDth8NPu+nma7d6V0n4sAbqO+w6uCS VZOO9qo2cKYGqs7E2YYWLHBadMGkyLjpDd9j7ZsLxEe6ezb1vFLxSmJQ3CiNLz+i q2okm0GUipkhMAMCC8zuV1GnUf5sJuSx6QiSkIE5Mok9d8HqOtXTt8F7URAa+YVC tBtM7dMIfXEQCJil16hTn+KdgiAtNE4BaGkyevW2kohwmKQgKU51/CHlofWGK1s= =6Ihg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html