On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Warren Mansur wrote:
> When I said 'release', I meant release it from the terminal window. That
> is, say I netscape &, then gcalc &, then xemacs &, and then I want to
> close the terminal window without closing all three other programs.
What Kevin D. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said about this is generally
correct (that you can't "release" a process from a terminal). (I consider
this a design flaw in Unix.)
However, most X programs seem to handle the situation you describe without
trouble. I'm not sure if this is because they deliberately set the SIGHUP
signal to be ignored, or if they don't use terminal I/O and thus don't
encounter the problem, or what, but I routinely open a terminal, issue
"netscape &", and then close the terminal, without problems.
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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