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Re: zwgc exits with SIGHUP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikhail Kuperblum)
Mon Oct 21 16:13:31 1996
From: mikhail@klm.com (Mikhail Kuperblum)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:12:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
"Re: zwgc exits with SIGHUP" (Oct 21, 3:57pm)
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: zephyr-bugs@MIT.EDU
On Mon, Oct 21 ( 3:57pm), Greg Hudson wrote:
> > select (6, 0xeffff4d8, 0, 0, 0xeffff4d0) = - SIGHUP (1)
>
> Normally, a process gets a SIGHUP because the user logged out. I
> honestly don't know any reason why zwgc would get a SIGHUP under other
> circumstances.
It's a bit embarrassing to admit, but as it turns out one of my fellow
staffers was cron-running a script, which was killing all processes
with PPID 1 not owned by root. As you know zwgc runs with PPID 1,
so... :-)
Thanks for your reply.
--mikhail
