From: Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 08/31/92 

From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
Date: 31 Aug 1992 07:15:15 GMT

hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com writes:
>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?

No, to both questions.