Subject: Re: Hung Processes in WUFTPD

From: [email-masked] (Andrew P. Schwalb)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 08:20:41 -0400

I am curious... I run 2.4 (Beta 11) with Solaris 2.5 and on a sparc 20
I never get hung processes.  Why do I see alot of people with the same
config get them?

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From: "Homer W. Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 13:33:09 -0400 (EDT)

The hung processes are caused by incomplete ftp sessions.  If
someone cancels or a line gets dropped or the internet burps and
a transfer fails in the middle, it will cause a hung process in
SunOS 4.1.4
 
    I was using them to track various ftp upload failures which
we have now fixed.
 
    We still get hung processes but they are almost always from
across the net, and not across dialup.
 
    They go away after a while because we are running ftp beta 11

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