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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need a timeout device SVR3.x
Message-ID: <10233@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 May 89 16:26:36 GMT
References: <170@attibr.UUCP> <10226@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4241@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <4241@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason) writes:
>Exactly ... perhaps a combination of idle and cpu usage to check for an
>anppropriate "time-out" might be needed.

Virtually every day I have connections that must remain open but on which
no activity, CPU or I/O, occurs for perhaps several hours.