xterm
Gerald S. Stoller
gs_stoller at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 15 17:02:54 PDT 2003
FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
jkh at narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
When working in a Unix system, I like to work with several windows (if
possible) and organize my work among them. I use xterm (as on the line
'xterm &') to open new windows. Recently, I wanted to check on my
processes and issued the command 'ps -l' and was surprised to not find any
xterm processes among them. So I issued the command 'ps -la' and there I
found the xterm processes but they were owned by root , not by me who had
issued the command. Even though I wasnt listed *by the ps la command as
the owner, I could still kill the xterm processes. I dont know where the
incongruity is, in the kernels tables or in the reporting by ps .
In multi-user (commercial) systems, I believe that the user who invokes the
xterm processes is (listed as) its owner.
I prefer that all processes running in FreeBSD be owned by the user who
invoked them, the exceptions being some system ( root ) processes used in
the login process. (The xterm processes are included here as non-system
processes, so they should be owned by the user who invoked them.) I would
like to see FreeBSD changed to reflect this, but the bug reporting site is
down now. If anyone knows of any reasons why the current operation is
correct and should be left as is, please inform me.
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