Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 10:06:52 -0500 (EST) From: Drew Morone <drew@j51.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: drew@j51.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processes -will- -not- die! Message-ID: <199512051506.KAA28792@j51.com> In-Reply-To: <199512050154.RAA06084@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Dec 4, 95 05:54:50 pm
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> > > >For some reason, some of the user apps on my system will get hung, and > >won't die when somebody exits unceremoniously. I of course have to go in > >and kill the process, which proceeds to suck up all of the CPU. This > >seems to happen most with "pine" and "tin", but will happen with other > >software as well. > > This is caused by 'pine' and 'tin' not handling the EIO return from a read > properly. When the TTY gets disconnected, input from stdin loops continuously > while ignoring the error return. (I might have this backward - it might be on > the output side or both). > > -DG > Ok, does anybody know what I can do about this? Drew
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