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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:58:16 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        "M.D. DeWar" <mark@s-wit.net>
Cc:        freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: what happens when connection is lost ?
Message-ID:  <6BA6722D-0BC3-11D8-9CED-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On Oct 31, 2003, at 11:54 AM, M.D. DeWar wrote:
> Hello,
> If I am logged in on a FreeBSD machine with ssh.
> And doing say a ./configure or make  and I lose connection does that 
> stop
> what I was doing ?

In general, yes-- what happens is that a broken connection results in a 
hangup (HUP) signal being sent to the process group containing ssh, 
your shell, and whatever commands might have been running.

> data get corrupted etc ?

Generally not.  The point of the HUP signal is to allow processes to 
shut down cleanly.  See "man nohup", "man signal"....

-- 
-Xhuxk



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