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Re: quickstation in a funny state...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Wed Oct 7 21:16:02 1998

To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG), bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "08 Oct 1998 20:58:43."
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Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 21:15:58 EDT
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>

> > The last time I was playing with the quickstations, I found that kill -STOP
> > would just completely kill bugme.  Furthermore, there was nothing on the
> 
> Uh, are you sure?  Applications can't block or catch SIGSTOP...

I remember thinking, "Oh, they must have hacked the kernel a little," when
I noted that behavior.  The action also logged me out, of course.
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