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Date:      Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:26:47 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To:        jandrese@mitre.org (Andresen Jason R.)
Cc:        gjb@gbch.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ryan@sasknow.com, andrew@ugh.net.au
Subject:   Re: Logging users out
Message-ID:  <200010302126.PAA83018@aurora.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <39FDE4D7.1020C4B2@mitre.org> from "Andresen,Jason R." at Oct 30, 2000 04:15:03 PM

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> Unfortunatly, sometimes when processes suddenly lose stdin/stdout, they 
> jump into infinate loops and start eating cpu cycles like crazy.  I'd
> hate
> to see what happens when you kill off a significant number of people
> running
> these poorly behaved programs.  FVWM95 Taskbars used to be notorious for
> this,
> I remember seeing upwards of a dozen of them vying for CPU time on some
> lab
> machines.

As an admin, you have to deal with those kinds of problems anyways, because
in such an environment, things like that are simply going to happen (you may
wish to note my .signature... got at least a decade of experience with it).

I'm quite comfortable having the equivalent of "kill -9" for a tty, and not
having to rely on "well did I kill the right process in order to make the
tty log out".
-- 
... Joe

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