Idle Users

[Steve Wiltsie]

Fairlight wrote:
> 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->

I think you may be assuming this is a network connection.  If she is using
DejaWin (ICE-TEN), and not ICE-TCP, it is serial.  I'd say the processes are
left running in that case.   At least that was the case "back in the day"
when several of my Unix customers were running serial connections using
DejaWin on PCs.

And then again, I could be wrong - and usually am.

Steve Wiltsie
microCONCEPTS Div.