From: hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta) Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit Date: 6 Sep 1992 15:02:32 GMT
<This is said here one time earlier at least, but seems that someones don't
understand without repeating.>
In article <20189@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) wrote:
> Why is it done this way? This is kinda sloppy. I know that
> somethimes unix will forget to kill one of my processes, but it
> doesn't seem to happen very often. Why would linux be designed this
> way?
>
> I think that all processes that aren't specifically nohup'ed should
> have to die when their parents die.
Linux does what programs ask to it do.
It is shell, what is designed this way. From csh's manual page:
"All processes detached with & are effectively nohup'd." This
apply also to tcsh.
So ask from writer of csh.
- K E H
( Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI,
hurtta@cc.Helsinki.FI,
hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI,
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