Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:16:31 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> Cc: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: CPU usage of "talk" Message-ID: <9511082016.AA25466@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951108145017.3876C-100000@itsdsv1.enc.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951108145017.3876C-100000@itsdsv1.enc.edu>
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<<On Wed, 8 Nov 1995 14:58:59 -0500 (EST), Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> said:
> Here's the PS output. They're talking to each other...
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
> slatera 4999 60.9 2.1 236 636 p1- R 2:31PM 4:13.48
^
> /usr/bin/talk holmesa
> holmesa 4983 61.1 2.1 236 636 p0- R 2:31PM 6:15.69
^
> /usr/bin/talk slatera
That `-' is the big hint. `talk' is another one of those broken
programs that assumes that input can never fail. Both of these
processes are spinning in loops attempting to read from a revoked
terminal and ignoring the resulting error return.
-GAWollman
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