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From: mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Why don't processes kill when disconnected (AIX3.1.3003)?
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Date: 13 Mar 91 15:50:47 GMT
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In article <10571@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.acd.ucar.edu (Tim
Fredrick) writes:
|> 
|> I hope this is something simple.  But when a terminal sessions is terminated
|> abnormally (power down, telnet disconnect, etc.) many processes stay in
|> the process tables.  This is also true when you press CTRL-SHIFT-BACKSPACE
|> in AIXWindows -- some X processes will stay in the process table as seen
|> by "ps -efgau .....

Dealing with killing these things is a daily effort for me, and a real pain
in the neck. I have no idea why it behaves this way. At the moment I have 
enough to do without IBM putting it on my back to demonstrate how to reproduce
it. (Which is why I haven't called it in.) As often as it happens here, I find
it hard to believe someone at IBM hasn't noticed it. 


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