On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:06:59PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> If you're going to fork a process you no longer have any interest in
> (such as forking a web browser for the user) then it's better to do
> this extra fork to make the browser a child of init rather than, say,
> the window manager.
hmm.. wouldn't that make it a different process group?
does xdm use process groups (or parent/child relationship) to kill the
user's processes on an "exit session" (wmaker's terminology) logout?
as a sysadmin i often find it useful to see that eg. netscape is
running as a child process of which particular login session. if
everything was orphaned you'd lose that information..
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- Gus
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