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- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.071515.24296@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 07:15:15 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.040048.27053@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 9
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- hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com writes:
- >Is the shell responsible for killing the background processes, or, since the
- >shell is the parent of them and has been terminated, shouldn't the OS kill
- >the processes automatically?
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- No, to both questions.
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- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi
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