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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Rlogin on connection drop
Date: 14 Aug 1995 10:18:32 +0200
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Mikhail Teterin <mi@csb.bu.edu> wrote:
>Before calling me a moron, wait for an answer (or did I show
>this characteristic of mine before?). rlogin leaves with a default
>`kill' or with `kill -1', but leaves csh in the unusable state --
>gives a prompt, that's it. csh can be killed with -1 or -9, that
>does not show any obvious difference -- getty comes up.
csh will e.g. save its history file on -HUP, but obviously not on
-KILL. The correct way is to kill -HUP the entire process group, btw.
(I guess HUP'ing the csh would also suffice, since the rlogin will
exit once its shell has been exiting.)
The general use of ``kill -9'' (and its propagation e.g. in Usenet) is
one of the biggest sins. It's just firing the big gun, instead of
asking ``Hey you, get out of my way!''.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)