Re: can I kill an ssh connection while updating my OpenBSD box?

[Rick Pettit <rpettit@vailsys.com>]

> Make generally assumes the shell is interactive.  I would think that 
> exiting the shell (which is what killing your Putty connection will 
> do) is the equivalent of sending kill signals to all foreground 
> processes spawned by that shell.

SIGHUP will be sent to all processes 'attached' to the terminal, if I am
not mistaken.  _Default_ SIGHUP handler winds up terminating the receiving
process (no, it doesn't attempt to reread the process's config file :-).

-Rick