"exit" vs. "X-ing" out of a terminal

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 09:17, Clint Harshaw wrote:
> Clint Harshaw wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Some time ago, I posted a question about mysterious users that showed up 
> >  when I would do a "who" at the prompt. I have a question related to 
> > that issue. Is there any difference in typing "exit" to stop a terminal 
> > vs. clicking on the "X" in that terminal's window? I wonder if these 
> > extra users are due to my "X-ing" out of a terminal rather than typing 
> > "exit" at the prompt.
> > 
> > Is there any harm done by "X-ing" out of the terminal?
> > 
> > Is there a proper way to retrieve those users remaining from a prior 
> > X-out so that I could "exit" from them? (short of rebooting, I can't 
> > seem to remove the extraneous users.)
> > 
> > Clint
> 
> My mailbox filled up and I missed the reply to this, but was able to 
> read it on marc.theaimsgroup.com's archive. I am confusing users with 
> open terminal sessions -- I'm the only user on this home desktop system.
> 
> When I ran who after init 1 I get this response;
> 
> charshaw pts/4        Jul 26 17:59 (:0.0)
> charshaw pts/11       Jul 26 21:52 (:0.0)
> charshaw pts/12       Jul 26 21:53 (:0.0)
> charshaw pts/16       Jul 27 10:09 (:0.0)
> 
> when I exit init 1 and log back in, w provides me with this information:
> 
>   10:11:48 up 21:47,  6 users,  load average: 2.10, 0.96, 0.43
> USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
> charshaw :0       -                10:11   ?xdm?  21.03s  0.62s 
> /usr/bin/gnome-
> charshaw pts/17   :0.0             10:11    0.00s  0.04s  0.00s w
> 
> are those pts/XX "users" terminal sessions that I "X"'d out of rather 
> than typing "exit"? Is this just a non-issue that I should just get used 
> to seeing?
> 

I think it is a non-issue,

But you can test the difference by opening a terminal session, looking
at the list of users as above, then exit the session each way and look
at the list again to see any differences in what the exit method may
reveal.

> Thanks,
> Clint
>