Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need a timeout device SVR3.x
Message-ID: <10244@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 May 89 15:56:02 GMT
References: <170@attibr.UUCP> <10226@smoke.BRL.MIL> <4241@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <10233@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9103@elsie.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 10

In article <9103@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> Virtually every day I have connections that must remain open but on which
>> no activity, CPU or I/O, occurs for perhaps several hours.
>I (and any other readers as unimaginative as myself) would appreciate
>details regarding such situations.

It's easy to come up with examples.  Here is a simple one:

a layer attached to my printer process, to which I direct output
when I want it printed on the printer attached to my terminal