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Re: rsaix 7.7E: cleanup bug - maybe ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Aug 9 20:07:16 1994

To: Jake Wetzel <jawetzel@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 94 20:06:52 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>

>> I don't think that the average user should have to cleanup after the
>> previous user just because he was unlucky enough to sit down at a
>> machine that wasn't idle long enough for the attachtab to be cleaned
>> up.

The average user is not doing X or Motif programming.  The programs
I'm familiar with which need those lockers detach anything attached on
the relevant mountpoint before attaching the locker.  My personal
dotfiles do the same thing.  Perhaps yours should, too.

		Marc

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