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- From: anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
- Subject: Re: Problems with stray xterm client processes...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.060934.28819@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>
- Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
- References: <9208312002.AA15606@cgise>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 06:09:34 GMT
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- espiritu@cgi.com (Rex Espiritu) writes:
- | This problem arises when a user logs out of one of our Sun SPARCstations
- | where they had "xterm" clients running when they logged out.
- |
- | What happens then is the "xterm" clients of another user (on the same
- | machine) seems to then start sharing the same pseudo device that the
- | other user had. The second user can do a "whoami" and they will get a
- | response of the other user. It seems that every other command is
- | executed under the other users "uid".
-
- Yes we have been experancing the same problem. However we also discovered
- that if a X11 R5 xterm is killed using a ``delete window'' signal from the
- window manager any process (other than the shell itself) that was running
- under that xterm is also left behind, to the detrement of anyone that
- picks up the old pty later.
-
- If a ``kill window'' signal is used however, the xterm cleans up properly.
- Under revision 4 the xterm ignores the ``delete window'' and only exits on
- a kill window or exit of the client shell, so no problem was experanced.
-
- I have reported this a number of times but have yet to recieve even a
- recept of the report.
-
-
- Anthony Thyssen - (CIT, Griffith University) anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
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