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From: jjs@heart.austin.ibm.com (Jim Shaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Why don't processes kill when disconnected (AIX3.1.3003)?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 20:12:41 GMT
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In article <10602@ncar.ucar.edu> root@acd.uucp writes:
>Some have speculated to me that this is a problem with /bin/csh.  One person
>wrote to say that the problem has been fixed with AIX3.1.5 which was
>announced and scheduled to ship March 22.  Until then I guess we get to
>keep killing processes by hand -- I haven't tried to run processes under
>any of the other shells to see if we have a similar problem.  Thanks.  --Tim

As far as I know this is a csh problem only.  The problem with csh
was that it didn't kill foreground children when it received a
SIGHUP.  It seems to be fixed in 3.1.5.

Jim Shaffer
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