Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: wall/apb acquires timeout Message-ID: <3935@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 17:17:40 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.3935 Posted: Tue Jun 5 17:17:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 17:17:40 EDT Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 6 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry