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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2000 09:44:54 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/14932: "more" eating up CPU on users with shell=/bin/sh if telnetd disconnects
Message-ID:  <20000509094453.A16783@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <200005090420.VAA56696@freefall.freebsd.org>; from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:20:02PM -0700
References:  <200005090420.VAA56696@freefall.freebsd.org>

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In <200005090420.VAA56696@freefall.freebsd.org>, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: 
> The following reply was made to PR misc/14932; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
> To: bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: misc/14932: "more" eating up CPU on users with shell=/bin/sh if telnetd disconnects
> Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 00:12:44 -0400
> 
>  On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 05:26:16PM -0800, bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
>  > 
>  > >Description:
>  > On 3.3 RELEASE, on a user with login shell of /bin/sh,
>  > if a user runs "more /etc/passwd" (or something) and then
>  > has their /bin/sh or telnetd killed (either manually with
>  > kill -9 or if the telnetd keepalive mechanism terminates a
>  > disconnected connection) "more" starts spinning, and quickly goes to
>  > the top of "top", eating 50% CPU or more
>  
>  I've fixed more to exit after it reads two EOFs, but the more serious
>  problem here, of course, is that /bin/sh isn't propogating signals
>  correctly.

Could you please be more specific and/or see if the problem is in
later /bin/sh as well?
  
Martin
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