Readnews and signals....

mike at BRL-TGR.ARPA mike at BRL-TGR.ARPA
Tue May 22 11:39:00 AEST 1984


From:      Mike Muuss <mike at BRL-TGR.ARPA>

Actually your problem is harder than catching SIGHUP.

The authors of the 4.2 BSD TELNET Daemon (/etc/telnetd)
send a KILL signal to the process group of the pseudo-tty
when the connection closes, just moments after the processes
get SIGHUP'ed.  This almost assures you of incorrect .newsrc, etc,
files -- just enough time to creat(), then Blam!

If I knew just what this was supposed to fix I'd start thinking
about taking it out...

	-Mike Muuss



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