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Date:      Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:41:20 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jeremy Shaffner <jer@jorsm.com>
To:        Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, spork <spork@super-g.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP! "who" hangs system.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980622104034.28872C-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
In-Reply-To: <358C78E8.4AEEA6B7@ms11.hinet.net>

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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Doug Lo wrote:

> Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 June 1998 at 16:18:35 +0800, Doug Lo wrote:
> > > spork wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is the system totally hung, or is it just the terminal in which you're
> > >> running 'who'?
> > >
> > > The system is totally hung, I should press "Ctrl-C" to interrupt. :-(
> >
> > You can't get out of a hung system, or even a hung terminal, with ^C.
> > This is just a hung program.
> >
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. But I have a question what you said:"This is just a hung
> program".
> Would you explain more details, what's a 'humg' program?
> You mean I can't press ^C to terminate the 'who'?
> 


If ^C works, then the system was not hung, just the program.


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