Detached login sessions

[warbob.rice at rand-relay]

From:  Bob.Warfield <warbob.rice at rand-relay>

The problem of rembering the characteristics of a login session is
important not only for networking, but for any serious implementation
of a window manager for unix, since multiple shells in separate windows
represent a similar problem. Even more difficult is the construction of
a window based system that will restore the desktop and associated
shell windows to their last state before logout. At the very least this
means the virtual terminals should all be in the same state, the
histories should be unchanged, and the working directories should be
unchanged. Eventually this all reaches the point of absurdity of
course. (Should programs that are running at logout be frozen in their
current state if they are foreground jobs? Talk about pausing emacs!).


						Bob Warfield
						warbob at rice