Killing Telnet Session Does not Flushes the Processes

[Anurag_7]

Hi All,

Killing a telnet does not kills the processes which were spawned while in that session immediately.

However, it appears as if these processes are flushed after quite a while.

Is this time configurable somewhere?

Thanks for your help on this.

Regards,

Anurag

[A. Clay Stephenson]

There is nothing special about processes whose parent shell was spawned by telnetd so there is no "time configurable". Processes don't know anything about time; they know about signals and how a process responds when its parent terminates is entirely dependent upon the process. For example, if there is a pipe connection between the parent and child and the parent dies then you get a broken pipe and the child typically dies as well. There is a signal to notify a parent of the death of a child but there is no corresponding signal for the reverse. What you are seeing is normal UNIX behavior. You need to find a better way to terminate your telnet sessions.