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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals
Message-ID: <9032@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Dec 88 18:39:44 GMT
References: <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> <8978@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2682@sultra.UUCP> <9012@smoke.BRL.MIL> <213.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <213.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
-What I asked for in the first place was just a program to send SIGHUP to
-processes, which seemed to be doing nothing.  There will of course always
-be cases where this 'seems' is wrong, but a process that wants to live could
-easily do signal(SIGHUP,handler) (or nohup).

Sorry, this doesn't work right, and anyway why should a process have to
disable SIGHUP in order to do its natural job?