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- Subject: RE: re: idle terminal...
- Message-ID: <009635A2.6A391BA0.32551@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 10:30:18 CST
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- Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546 <GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM> writes:
- >
- > A week ago I posted code to periodically increment the process
- > I/O count so that idle job killers wouldn't kill it.
- >
- > Hunter et all offered clever ditties to set the delete pending
- > and exit pending flags, preventing those from being applied.
- >
- > HOWEVER, all those require explicit code be run by the user
- > before termination can occur. In the event that the user was
- > disconnected (terminal, non vtas) or killed (batch job termination)
- > then that process is STUCK until $cmkrnl intervention.
- >
- Yes, I was following the thread (and taking it farther) that was
- moving away from the idle terminal stuff. My comments were mostly for
- those detached processes you want to protect.
-
- Hunter
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- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-