[16393] in Athena Bugs
Re: quickstation in a funny state...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jered J Floyd)
Wed Oct 7 22:13:18 1998
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG), bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Jered J Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
Date: 07 Oct 1998 22:13:11 -0400
In-Reply-To: amu@MIT.EDU's message of 08 Oct 1998 20:58:43 +2000
<daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> <klmitch@MIT.EDU> (Kev) writes:
>
> > 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...
According to marc, when you send a SIGSTOP to bugme, the parent process
gets a SIGCHLD. The parent then logs you out for tampering. :-)
There is a way to suspend bugme without this happening (and so the
parent might want to do more active monitoring of bugme if this
becomes a problem), but I choose not to reveal the specifics in a public
discuss meeting.
--Jered
