From: Kevin W. Hammond (hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com)
Date: 08/30/92 

From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com>
Subject: Background processes not dying on parent exit
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:00:48 GMT

I'm not sure if this is a shell problem or OS problem. I'll start with the
OS....

I ran a process in the background from tcsh with the ampersand (&). I would
have expected that when I logged out of the shell that my background processes
would have died as well, but they didn't.

Is the shell responsible for killing the background processes, or, since the
shell is the parent of them and has been terminated, shouldn't the OS kill
the processes automatically?

I'm using tcsh 6.01 and linux 0.97pl2.

-kwh- 

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