Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:52:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Help, processes not getting killed when users exit Message-ID: <199603302252.XAA05027@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603300835.BAA07024@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 30, 96 01:35:55 am
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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