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- From: person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person )
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Background processes not dying on parent exit
- Message-ID: <20189@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 11:21:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: plains.20189
- References: <1992Aug31.040048.27053@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug31.071515.24296@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Aug31.071515.24296@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
- >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?
- >
- >No, to both questions.
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-
- 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.
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