From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 15:25:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21511 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:25:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21452 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26581 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:24:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA15364 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:24:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id XAA05027 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:52:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603302252.XAA05027@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Help, processes not getting killed when users exit To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:52:26 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603300835.BAA07024@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 30, 96 01:35:55 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)