Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 09:09:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Eddie Irvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new Bug with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980408090733.4924B-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <01bd62c8$0905d3c0$a01a1acb@gretchen>
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Eddie Irvine wrote: > top should show the "ee" process still active, > using up 95% of CPU time. Now go to your > ethernet hub. It should show a whole heap > of activity - much more than normal. > > I presume this shouldn't happen on a Unix system - > all processes should be children of the logged in > user, and thus should get KILL'ed when the user > exits, no matter how they exit. No, this is an application bug. Applications are sent a HUP signal, which they could ignore. Then the application stupidly gets in a tight-loop reading from a non-existant connection. I normally would set a CPU time limit so broken applications like ee don't last that long. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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