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From: bfox@AUREL.CALTECH.EDU (Brian Fox)
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Subject: bash 1.02 seg-faults on ^D
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Date: 29 Aug 89 19:36:57 GMT
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   From: George Young <young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu>
   Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 13:15:49 EDT

   It would be helpful to have an 'autologout' timer, set by some
   variable.

I have heard this request before, but I have not yet heard a good reason
for having it.

   I know this is only effective if one is sitting at a shell prompt,

Why?  It could just be based on idle time.

   but lots of people leave a terminal sitting at a shell prompt for
   days (or weeks!).

So what?  They are not taking any cycles by just sitting there.  They
would be taking up more cycles if the shell was getting alarm clock
signals telling it that `autologout' time had passed.

Brian