Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 01:09:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processes -will- -not- die! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951206010713.2831A-100000@sasami> In-Reply-To: <199512050112.UAA12000@j51.com>
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On Mon, 4 Dec 1995, Drew Morone wrote: > For some reason, some of the user apps on my system will get hung, and > won't die when somebody exits unceremoniously. I of course have to go in > and kill the process, which proceeds to suck up all of the CPU. This > seems to happen most with "pine" and "tin", but will happen with other > software as well. I have also seen this problem. One case where dialup shell users get cut off while running pine and the other where local XTerm users close the xterm w/o exiting Pine. Both result in pine hanging in a cpu-eating loop. Annoying but doesn't really hurt much. | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|
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