Byron Clark wrote: > On 7/5/07, Eduardo Sanz-Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Could you please try to do the following? >> 1- Open a terminal window >> 2- Call your favorite web browser from the terminal window and put it on >> the background. >> 3- Close the terminal window >> What happen with the web browser? Is it still alive? >> > > On my system, iceweasel dies when the terminal is killed because it > gets a SIGHUP. My web browser (mozilla) is still alive after I kill the terminal. This is probably because mozilla is catching the SIGHUP. Thank you for all your suggestions. > If you want your process to stick around after the > parent process dies you'll need to make sure you handle at least that > signal. You can find a list of the things you really should do to > create a daemon at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/programmer/faq/, > search for "How do I get my program to act like a daemon". > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/
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