Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr...
by dooglius on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:55PM
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Yeah, these still exist, though they're becoming more rare. I think what you actually want though is for processes to be killed at the end of class/lab period (even then, I think this should be done by students manually to avoid losing unsaved work). For example, say a student is running some big batch job as part of a lab. Now, if he wants to, say, go to the bathroom or go to the whiteboard to consult with other students, he has to either leave the computer unlocked (possibly leaving neighbors access to private student account data) or kill the running job.
Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr...
by throw0101a on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:55AM
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> It’s a scenario that might make sense here.
Perhaps. I have worked half my career in academia & research, going back to when Solaris (SPARC) workstations were a thing, and this was never a problem.
It’s a scenario that might make sense here. But then again, having a watchdog script just kill leftover processes has been doing this same job for forever. Including this use case in systemd seems like overreach.