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Re: by treyd on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @01:59PM (#47429055)
HUP is short for "hangup" which was supposed to be sent when the tty controlling the session the process is in hung up.
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Re: by aa-jv on Friday March 20, 2026 @04:27AM (#47451943)
Right, so tty's go stale prior to the freeze and they must be renewed after the freeze .. seems to me there's a missing system heuristic here.
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