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- From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt)
- Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.082627.7875@uhura1.uucp>
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- Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
- References: <1992Aug31.133521.23250@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:26:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.133521.23250@athena.mit.edu> hammond@kwhpc.caseng.com writes:
- >|
- >| |>
- >| |> I ran a process in the background from tcsh with the ampersand (&). I would
- >| |> have expected that when I logged out of the shell that my background processes
- >| |> would have died as well, but they didn't.
- >|
- >| This is what is supposed to happen.
- >
- >I thought that was supposed to happen only if you ran the background job via
- >nohup.
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- True. But both csh and tcsh automatically nohup all background jobs.
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- Bryan Curnutt | "I hope that UNIX is more like my diner
- bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net | than like McDonald's." -- Doug McIlroy
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