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From: Grant Haidinyak <grant@iwv.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PTY's reused to quickly
Date: 11 Sep 1995 16:34:45 GMT
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I've noticed that if a user logs into FreeBSD 2.0.5 Release, and the session
unexpectedly gets aborted (ie the user's DOS machine crashes), then the pty
stays open. Then when another user logs into the FreeBSD box, they get the same
pty assigned to them, and they also get attached to the same shell session (as
well as the new shell session), quite annoying.

Anyway, has anyone else seen this? Is there already a fix available?

thanks

grant