From: Kevin W. Hammond <hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com> Subject: Re: Killing background processes on logout Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 23:39:59 GMT
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| In comp.os.linux you write:
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| >My best guess would be that when either X or the cmdtool exits, they are
| >killing background processes.
|
| Well, of course, any X clients will exit, because their connection
| to the X server will be broken and they'll freak. If you run X on Linux
| and exit with clients running (even those started with "command &" from
| csh), you'll see Xlib error messages on the normal console after the X
| server exits from each of the clients.
|
| >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! :-)
|
| No problem. :-) The man page for csh would have done it quite some
| time ago, actually.
|
Not necessarily so ... I fired up the man pages on my csh at work (SunOS) and
they did not mention it. Of course, I don't have the man pages for the linux
tcsh, so that may be where I've gone wrong! :-)
-kwh-
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