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- From: cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Chris A. Wilcox)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: pty bug fix for 4.1.3?
- Summary: Yup, the problem is stupid [shell,cmd]tools
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.202925.13750@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:29:25 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.150313.17960@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <1992Nov4.202415.11999@smab.se> <1992Nov5.010756.21667@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <1992Nov5.010756.21667@babbage.ece.uc.edu> montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.202415.11999@smab.se> hans@smab.se (Hans C Larsson) writes:
- >>cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Chris A. Wilcox) writes:
- >>
- problem statement deleted...
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- >I thought this fix was integrated into 4.1.3.
- >Are you sure you not just seeing the old problem of cmdtool
- >or xterm not cleaning out its old entries in /etc/utmp.
- >
- >When you do a "w" command are all the processes in question
- >'-'(dashes) or blank? If so xterm or cmdtool are not
- >cleaning up properily.
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- That is indeed the case I am seeing. As a casual browser of this
- newsgroup, I probably missed the discussion on this behavior of
- shelltools. What is not being cleaned up, and if it's an old
- problem, why hasn't Sun fixed it? Enquiring minds want to know.
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