Idle Users

[Fairlight]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:13:04PM -0400, Kenneth Brody, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> 
> You're assuming that closing the window by clicking the "x" causes the
> telnet session to be ended, and a SIGHUP to be sent.

If it doesn't, there's something wrong with either the emulator or the
ssh/telnet/whatever daemon--or both.  

More likely than not, the emulator would be closing without actually ending
the session even semi-politely.  It's the equivalent of connection reset by
peer, basically, and I've seen this happen on Solaris when my DSL desyncs
during a storm.  It'll strand the session.  But any -proper- emulator
should be politely ending the session according to the protocol if you
close it by -any- means other than using the task manager to absolutely
nuke it.  If it's not doing so, it's time to find a new emulator.

It's true that it's possible to do it accidentally, true.  I didn't raise
the possibility because she said explicitly that she thought they were
closing the application.  I didn't account for lousy emulation software not
trapping the event and handling it gracefully.  :)

Good point.

mark->
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