Re: Re: Solaris 2.x utmp hole
Pete Hartman (pwh@bradley.bradley.edu)
Fri, 26 May 1995 10:07:43 -0500
>Me: Why is this a "feature?"
>SE: For all the 1001 things that init now does, it doesn't "log out" a
>user when the user hangs up. The shells have all been hacked to catch
>all the signals and if they are going to exit, to update the utmp and
>utmpx files before they go. The init under SunOS did write logout
>messages to utmp when the process attached to the tty exited.
This actually makes some sense.
The AT&T (now NCR) init code presumably tries to handle logouts itself,
and frequently fails miserably, if the machine is loaded down.