STREAMS Programming Guide

Hungup Streams

When a Stream-head receives a hangup message from a device or module, it is marked as hung up. A Stream that is marked as hung up is allowed to be reopened by its session leader if it is allocated as a controlling terminal, and by any process if it is not allocated as a controlling terminal. This way, the hangup error can be cleared without forcing all file descriptors to be closed first.

If the reopen is successful, the hangup condition is cleared.