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- From: bir7@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ross Biro)
- Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.174714.15527@morrow.stanford.edu>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Aug31.040048.27053@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug31.071011.15546@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:47:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.071011.15546@u.washington.edu> barr@hardy.u.washington.edu (David Barr) writes:
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- >
- >The processes are not supposed to go away unless they are suspended
- >for some reason. Another thing to watch out for: if someone logs in
- >on the tty you were on when you started the jobs, they will get the
- >output from your program.
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- Since init now uses vhangup this won't be a problem. Linux
- vhangup should even catch references to the controlling terminal via
- /dev/tty.
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- Ross Biro bir7@leland.stanford.edu
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