On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:21:24 +0100,
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jerry Talkington wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:37:56PM -0700, A A wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello and thank you for your help. I installed many programs via Fink; 
> >>let's say that I start up X11 and type at the prompt
> >>[~] gimp &
> >>The GIMP will start up. If I close the xterm window, GIMP will close as 
> >>well. It didn't used to do this on Jaguar, so I can only assume that I have 
> >>my .bashrc and .bash_profile files not in working order.
> > 
> > 
> > That's the standard behavior.  It happens to me on Jaguar also, I don't
> > know how you got around it.  When the parent process is killed (i.e.
> > closing the xterm window,) the children die as well.
> 
> Funny, it doesn't happen to me, neither on Panther nor on Jaguar. The 
> orphaned child gets adopted by pid 1, /sbin/init. Probably a bash vs 
> tcsh issue. I am using tcsh.

It could also be a login vs. non-login shell issue.  It would make sense
that programs started from a login shell would terminate when that shell
terminates, and that programs started from a non-login shell would be
adopted by init when that shell terminates.

HTH,
Dan

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