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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 1996 13:19:38 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help, processes not getting killed when users exit
Message-ID:  <199603312019.NAA11733@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199603302252.XAA05027@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 30, 96 11:52:26 pm

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> > What happens instead on BSD, is that the close of the master causes
> > a "revoke".  Processes that don't trap read returns for EOF will
> > go into a tight loop; those that do, will exit, just like if BSD
> > had properly delivered the SIGHUP to the child processes (like
> > POSIX implies you shouldn't, and like SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, SCO,
> > Linux, BSDI, Ultrix, OSF/1, SVR3, SVR4, and AIX all do...).
> 
> Are you absolutely sure about BSDI and Illtrix?
> 
> It would surprise me for BSDI, and i know it for certain that the old
> 4.2BSD-based Illtrix did cause us much more gray hairs with this
> symptom.

I'm positive for Ultrix 4.2 on a MicroVAX II.

BSDI, I'm just guessing because they don't have this problem flooding
their lists, and the SIGHUP fix is the correct one.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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