From: Kevin W. Hammond (hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com)
Date: 09/01/92 

From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com>
Subject: Re: Killing background processes on logout
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:33:54 GMT

Well, I stumbled into work this morning shaking my head and wondering what
in the world have I let myself be duped by. Was Sun's csh really "bogus"
and leaving background jobs up and running?

Well I fired up OpenWindows ... and then it hit me. I do not ever recall
"testing" this behavior outside of X. In a cmdtool, I fired up a second
csh and ran a process in the background. I then exited the cmdtool and
lo and behold, the background job was still running (isn't that cute :-)

My best guess would be that when either X or the cmdtool exits, they are
killing background processes.

So, I stand (sit) corrected. I now fully share the belief that the csh does
not kill background processes on exit. Thank you everyone for helping me
to see the light! :-)

-kwh- 

-- 
Kevin W. Hammond
hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com

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