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...y slave's session leader has exited will cause the pty slave driver to revoke open fildes referring to it *and* to send HUP/CONT to remaining process groups with that pty slave association. My tests indicate that closing the master pty, on Solaris, does not cause the slave pty open fildeses to be revoked and not signal is sent, so orphaned background process groups continue to run and clutter up the process table *and*, apparently they continue to consume a pty which cannot be reused until said processes exit or dissasociate from their pty. What about Linux? My own te...