<<On Wed, 19 May 1999 18:01:57 +0200 (MET DST), Andre Rikkert de Koe <arikk...@surf.iae.nl> said:
> logonserver. Since than almost every day we find timeconsuming processes > running while the user isn't even logged in (anymore). These programs are > mostly tin and lynx and such interactive programs. We are sure that they Some broken interactive programs don't bother to check whether the terminal I/O they do succeeds or not, and will happily sit there spinning at a revoked tty forever. It is possible for these programs to persist after logout if they either (1) ignore SIGHUP or (2) were started in such a way as to block the propagation of SIGHUP to them (some shells can do this). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
