Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: v11i020: Idle demon Message-ID: <28360@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 24 Aug 90 13:41:53 GMT References: <1990Aug23.143804.24954@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Aug24.062331.23278@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: estelle.ee.udel.edu It might be better to kill idle *programs* rather than idle *users*. Any forground process running csh, rn, vi, .... could be killed fairly harmlessly. Of course, the question of how to kill the csh which invoked the rn which invoked the vi that somebody walked away from is interesting. The best solution may be to patch the tty drivers to report how long there have been outstanding read() calls, rather than how long since something was typed. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware ---