Hi Alan, * Alan Cox wrote: > I would argue that TTYs do behave this way. We treat the disconnect as a > hang up event. BSD sees it as EOF, Linux as hangup. Would you mind explaining me the difference? I thought a modem disconnect implies an end-of-file condition? If you take the code I mentioned and modify it to close the master device and perform a read on the TTY, it will return 0. -- Ed Schouten