[33] in Zephyr_Comments
login instances
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Kubiatowicz)
Wed May 25 01:03:02 1988
To: zephyr-comments@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 25 May 88 00:02:47 EST
From: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I was just thinking... (not that I do that too frequently).
What if login instances were to expire on a regular basis and zwgc were
to keep sending login messages at regular intervals? The zephyr server
could recognize that a login notice duplicated a previous message a
refrain from sending duplicate login notices to users.
This seems to be (on first consideration) very easy to implement. The advantage
would be that stale login instances wouldn't persist for more than some
short interval (say 10 mins), reguardless of the method of zwgc termination
(workstation reboot,random lossage,etc).
--KUBI--
