Autologout of unused terminals

[Bjorn Engsig]

In article <9012 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> >why it's such a terrible sin to kill these jobs.
> 
> Because any automated scheme you come up is likely to ALSO kill off
> some perfectly legitimate jobs.
> 
What I asked for in the first place was just a program to send SIGHUP to
processes, which seemed to be doing nothing.  There will of course always
be cases where this 'seems' is wrong, but a process that wants to live could
easily do signal(SIGHUP,handler) (or nohup).  When doing this, you show that
you are aware of the possible 'auto-killing', and you will be sure not to be
killed.  This is also a nice thing to do on a modem line.
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