Path: utzoo!dciem!chk
From: chk@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Help with background processes
Message-ID: <2499@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 8 Sep 89 20:21:03 GMT
Reply-To: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Distribution: can
Organization: NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Canada
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I am using the latest version of Month (8.7) on a Sun runing SunOS3.4. There
is a daemon program that you can run in the background to tell you about
upcoming events.

The daemon process code claims that the process group of a process is set to
zero when the person who spawns that process logs off. This is obviously not
working; There were 13 monthd programs running on different terminals here
today (and all of them were writing *my* appointments to everyone else's
terminals!)

I need a fix. I need a sure-fire way for a process to detect that the person
who spawned it is no longer logged on on that terminal.

	Help!


-- 
          C. Harald Koch          NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario          
     chk@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca,  chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca,  chk@chk.mef.org
"There is no problem, no matter how large or how small, that cannot be solved
by an appropriate application of high explosives."            -Leo Graf, 2298