On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:46:02PM +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, LordX wrote:
>> I cant imagen why something like that will not work, if a program is
>> either started in the background with a &, or started without a &,
>> then ctrl Z then type bg places that program in the background, then
>> you should be able to logout without killing the process.
> This doesn't work becasue when you log out, all of the
> processes that are children of your login shell get HANGUP
> signals. I believe the default behavior on getting a SIGHUP
> is to exit. I just checked it with man & tcsh, and this
> appears to be true. the program nohup runs your program,
> but sets up a signal handeler which catches the SIGHUP and
> ignores it so it doesn't ever make it to your program
Well all i can say is that i can do things like that. However like i
said it depends on what your program exachtly does.
>greg
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