On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:43:53 -0400 Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2003.09.09 00:31, rh wrote: > > When I start a process running in the background, as in, "xplanet > > -projection rectangular 2>/dev/null &", why when I exit the terminal > > window, does that process die? Kind of defeats the purpose of shoving > > it to the background if you still have to keep the eterm open. > > I can't reproduce this with aterm. > > xev & > exit
Odd but I usually just close the terminal window with a mouse click which kills my background process. But closing with "exit" seems to leave my process running. What is the difference?
I'm not sure. Perhaps the window manager kills the process when you close the window?
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