From: Kari E. Hurtta (hurtta@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 09/06/92


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
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  hurtta@cc.Helsinki.FI,
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