I have observed this behaviour even on Debian and Ubuntu, with bash
prompt.When I see ps output, I see PPID of the main firefox (/usr/bin/firefox)
to be the PID of the bash process. I am not sure though if this is a desired
behaviour.
(Should the child be killed if parent proc is closed ?)
--- On Sat, 23/8/08, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [BSD-INDIA] Closing the terminal results in closing of application
started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded
To: "BSD users in India" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, 23 August, 2008, 2:40 PM
This happens in FreeBSD I forgot to add.
Thanks
Siju
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started Firefox from an xterm.
> Then I pressed <ctrl> +Z
> And the I typed bg to background Firefox process.
> But when I close xterm firefox also closes.
> Why is that?
> This not the behavior in any other BSD or linux :-(
>
> thanks
>
> Siju
>
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