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From: CCUCARD%indsvax1.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu (Paul Cardwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: A Daemon Phreaking out.
Message-ID: <23268@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 May 90 18:45:27 GMT
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        I'm currently developing a Game for unix style systems.

        I'm currently having troubles with my daemon.
        Lets say someone did a 'kill -9' on the terminal that
        is talking to the daemon.  Ok for one the terminal dies.
        Two the daemon goes nuts and eats CPUtime like you wouldn't
        believe.  I do check for errors reading & writing to the
        terminal, but somehow the daemon still goes running like mad.
        Yes, I close() the socket and unmask it from the mask.
        I'm confused!  Any ideas!  Oh, of course I'm not 'root' so
        I cannot use msgctl().

                                Paul.
        p.s. I currently use BSD 4.2 on a Sequent (8 parallel processors).