Re: Re: Solaris 2.x utmp hole

[pwh () bradley bradley edu (Pete Hartman)]

> Me: Why is this a "feature?"
> SE: For all the 1001 things that init now does, it doesn't "log out" a
> user when the user hangs up.  The shells have all been hacked to catch
> all the signals and if they are going to exit, to update the utmp and
> utmpx files before they go.  The init under SunOS did write logout
> messages to utmp when the process attached to the tty exited.

This actually makes some sense.

The AT&T (now NCR) init code presumably tries to handle logouts itself,
and frequently fails miserably, if the machine is loaded down.