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- From: miff@asharak.apana.org.au (michael smith)
- Subject: Re: another 1.10 job control bug?
- Date: Sat, 05 Mar 94 02:03:50+1030
- In-Reply-To: <199403042253.RAA07033@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> from ""Nicholas S Castellano" " at Fri, 4 Mar 1994 17:53:32 -0500
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- X-Software: Atari UUCP UPoint light (22. Jan. '94)
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- In <199403042253.RAA07033@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> you wrote :
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- >My only problem with it as a permanent solution is that a process
- >hanging around in the foregroung process group could prevent the
- >controlling tty from ever being released, causing the
- >you-only-get-one-login-per-device problem again. One way this could
- >happen is if an asynchronous process is spawned from a
- >non-job-control-aware shell (e.g. one that knows nothing about process
- >groups). I guess this isn't a big enough problem to be concerned
- >about at the moment, unless there are other ways this could happen.
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- Hmm, and it shouldn't be a problem anyway - when DCD drops/the TCP link is
- closed/or any other 'true' logout action occurs, init should terminate
- all processes that claim to have that line as a controlling tty.
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- >entropy
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