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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: wall/apb acquires timeout
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 17:17:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 17:17:40 1984
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Wall(1), and hence apb(1), has acquired a timeout, so that a terminal
that's hung (e.g. in a paging wait) doesn't have an apb process sitting
there indefinitely waiting to write to it.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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