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Date sent:  9-NOV-1992 09:05:26

        A week ago I posted code to periodically increment the process
        I/O count so that idle job killers wouldn't kill it.

        Hunter et all offered clever ditties to set the delete pending
        and exit pending flags, preventing those from being applied.

        HOWEVER, all those require explicit code be run by the user
        before termination can occur.  In the event that the user was
        disconnected (terminal, non vtas) or killed (batch job termination)
        then that process is STUCK until $cmkrnl intervention.

        Lastly on the issue of NODELETE and FORCEX...  there is nothing
        stopping anyone from creating an exit handler which unwinds past
        the $exit and the $forcex.  It takes a bit of code out of $unwind
        plus some stack fixup (and you have to dismiss the ast frame) but
        it works.  If it weren't Sunquest proprietary I'd post it.

        I'm still looking for a better solution than mine, that requires
        NO user intervention at logout... however until I find one, a
        repeating tqe in p1 space works for me :)

        Ehud

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Ehud Gavron        (EG76)
gavron@vesta.sunquest.com                                       This was sent
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