From owner-cvs-all Thu May 24 6:13:37 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB3437B423; Thu, 24 May 2001 06:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 152uvj-0005bY-0X; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:13:31 +0100 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4ODCG759426; Thu, 24 May 2001 14:12:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 14:12:16 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tip/tip tip.c tipout.c In-Reply-To: <200105240927.f4O9R2a53217@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 May 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > phk 2001/05/24 02:27:02 PDT > > Modified files: > usr.bin/tip/tip tip.c tipout.c > Log: > If the user exists abruptly, tip's "tipout" child can hang around > forever. Since the lock file doesn't get cleaned up, this prevents > other users from accessing the target device. > > (phk adds: Man, this has been bugging me for YEARS!) Me too. These days, I generally type 'killall tip; tip cua0c'... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message