On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> But these days, people often have several simultaneous sessions open.
> They may have multiple ssh sessions to a single machine, or they may
> have a bunch of terminal windows open, each of which has a login shell
> and will send HUP to its children when it exits.

Yes, except that as far as I can tell the shell never sends HUP.

> This is all further complicated by bash's huponexit option, which I
> think is off by default. So I, for example, have never noticed this
> behavior even with multiple xterms, because my cache never actually gets
> SIGHUP.

Interesting, I was not aware of this option. I tried enabling it, but
I see no difference, the daemon still receives no SIGHUP. Could it be
a bug in my version of bash?

GNU bash, version 4.3.42(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

Ah, it seems I'm not the only one: (Raphael Ahrens at
http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/85296/47926)

    Bash seems to send the SIGHUP only if it self received a SIGHUP[...]
    So if you type exit or press Ctrl+D all background process will
remain, since this does not send a hang up signal to the Bash.
    [...]
    There is an option to send the SIGHUP on exit, but it does not
work on my Bash 4.2.25. Maybe it works for you

> I don't know what shell Noam is using, but I wonder if tweaking
> that option (or a similar one if not bash) might be helpful to signal
> "let this stuff keep running even after I exit".

My normal login shell is zsh, but I've been testing with bash and I
see the same behaviour with both. But the original reason for this
whole thread is that when running from Emacs (not via shell), the
daemon *always* get a SIGHUP as soon as "git push" finishes, which
makes the caching thing not so useful. We do have a workaround for
this by now though (start the daemon independently before calling "git
push").
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