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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!news.internex.net!usenet 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 Organization: Interwave Communications Lines: 12 Message-ID: <431of5$ffm@voyager.internex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: iwv.iwv.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; BSD/386 uname failed) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc#430u38$5hn@reason.cdrom.com 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