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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, yura@rd.zgik.zaporizhzhe.ua
Subject: Re: bug or feature in kern/tty.c
Cc: eugen@rd.zgik.zaporizhzhe.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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>>According to the man page, slattach aborts if it receives a SIGHUP in the

>	Im 3 times reread manuals on slattach, but not found this words.

     -l 	   disable modem control (CLOCAL) and ignore carrier detect on
		   the slip port.  By default the redial-commmand is invoked
		   upon carrier drop and slattach aborts if no redial-commmand
		                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		   is specified.
		   ^^^^^^^^^^^^

>>!redial_command case.  This got broken when complications to get rid of
>>the controlling terminal were introduced.
>	
>	Oh why, my God, why work on 'toward POSIX compliance' of FreeBSD
>broke old good slattach?

`towards a secure system'.

Bruce