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 -- <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> An omer is a tenth of an ephah. -- Exodus 16:36. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
