From: Hal N. Brooks (hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu)
Date: 09/03/92


From: hal@pollux.cs.uga.edu (Hal N. Brooks)
Subject: Re: Killing background processes on logout
Date: 3 Sep 1992 14:03:49 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.233959.10014@athena.mit.edu> hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com writes:
>|
>| In comp.os.linux you write:
[note --- I can't attribute this, since hammond didn't]
>|

[some irrelevant stuff deleted]

>| >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! :-)
>

FLAME ON:

Learn to accept, Kevin, that you are as likely as anyone
to be wrong at every turn. From the csh(1) manpage of
SunOS 4.1:

     nohup [ command ]
               Run command with HUPs ignored. With no arguments,
               ignore HUPs throughout the remainder of a script.
               When given, command is always run in a subshell,
               and the restrictions placed on commands in simple
               if commands apply. All processes detached with &
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
               are effectively nohup'd.
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     notify [ %job ] ...
               Notify the user asynchronously when the status of
               the current, or of specified jobs, changes.

Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 2 October 1989 19

FLAME OFF

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