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> In-Reply-To: <017301c39fcf$9daa5ba0$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> References: <002a01c39cb4$11062e90$0501a8c0@canada> <000a01c39da0$0cdb1b40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <3F9EE982.5040001@magidesign.com> <000a01c39da1$bb981e70$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <3F9EF09F.3070800@mindcore.net> <01c501c39ef7$a536ab40$fb65a8c0@ocfl061> <20031030182345.GD29685@rot13.obsecurity.org> <017301c39fcf$9daa5ba0$fb65a8c0@ocfl061>
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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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