RE: re: idle terminal...

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From: Hunter Goatley
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 16:30

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Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546 <GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM> writes:
>
>       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.
>
Yes, I was following the thread (and taking it farther) that was
moving away from the idle terminal stuff.  My comments were mostly for
those detached processes you want to protect.

Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251

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From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 10:30:18 CST
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