[hacknews] wall/apb acquires timeout

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (06/06/84)

Wall(1), and hence apb(1), has acquired a timeout, so that a terminal
that's hung (e.g. in a paging wait) doesn't have an apb process sitting
there indefinitely waiting to write to it.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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