On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Maxim Vexler wrote: > b. How come the Virtual Terminal window closed because a simple > "exec", the man page says it should exit with no warning when working > in non-interactive shell, but I've been fully interactive so what's up > with that?
Go read up on exec. You are replacing the current process (bash) with another one (echo) by using exec. The command runs, then finishes, and since there's no shell anymore the xterm quits. Sounds normal to me. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
