[8333] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.3M: dialup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ghost)
Sat Oct 5 01:45:45 1991
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 91 01:46:32 EDT
From: Ghost <timo@Athena.MIT.EDU>
hola.
System name: michael-moorcock
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.3M
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
login to dialup
either via telnet
rlogin
or a modem
What's wrong:
For a while on Friday 10/4, zephyr got really hosed. During
this period, executing the command zwgc would cause the window to hang.
Neither ^C nor ^Z would interrupt the program. In fact, the only way to
kill the process was to "kill" it from another window.
When people were trying to login to dialup, this zwgc error
caused severe problems. Namely, once the startup files started the zwgc
process, the user was hosed. He would not his prompt back and could not
interrupt or kill the zwgc process.
What should have happened:
The zwgc process should have forked. That way this problem
could not have happened.
happy daze
-tim O
<timo@athena.mit.edu>
