From: Kevin W. Hammond (hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com)
Date: 08/31/92 

From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com>
Subject: Re: Killing background processes on logout
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 03:44:13 GMT

I was under the same assumption that processes attached to the controlling tty
were killed on logout, but anything that had detached was immune. That view
does not seem to be shared by others. I'm still not sure which way I want to
lean yet...if a program is running on a particular tty in the background, what
is to prevent the next user from logging in on the same tty to not get the
output from the program? I even noticed that output from the program appeared
at a login: prompt since getty was running on the same tty I had previously
started a background job on. That does not seem right.

-kwh- 

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