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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Here's an interesting bug in our utmp handling.
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 06:29:56 +0000 (GMT)
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> > In exec, revoke the tty to kill off all the other processes, if
> > it's /bin/login, while keeping the tty for the process exec'ing
> > so it doesn't hang up.
> 
> Hmm.  What if the old user had left some things running in the
> background?

Then the won't mind having their tty revoked, because they're
in the background.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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