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- From: svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steven Fenger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: pty bug fix for 4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.164522.26309@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 16:45:22 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.202415.11999@smab.se> <1992Nov5.010756.21667@babbage.ece.uc.edu> <1992Nov5.202925.13750@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- In article <1992Nov5.202925.13750@afterlife.ncsc.mil> cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Chris A. Wilcox) writes:
- >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...
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
-
- I have noticed that if you specifically type "exit" in a cmd/shelltool,
- /etc/utmp IS cleaned-up. So maybe the cmd/shelltool dies in such a way
- that the underlying shell doesn't have a chance to clean up.
- --
- Steven Fenger fenger@cps.msu.edu svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil
- What for you bury me in the cold, cold ground?
-