On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Dave Feustel wrote:
> While running kde 3.4.2 on OpenBSD 3.8, upon logging out from my normal user
> id and then logging back in with a new user id and executing ps -ax, I found
> an instance of kde kicker running before I had invoked startkde as the new
> user. I was not able to delete the process using kill -9, so I logged out,
> logged back in under the previous user name and then was able to delete the
> kicker task using kill -9. My understanding is that all user processes (eg,
> kde processes) are terminated when the user logs out. Is that correct?
> Any ideas as to how the user process survived the logout?
If a process detaches from the terminal, it will survive. Another way
is using nohup(1).
If kde leaves processes hanging around, it looks like a bug in kde.
-Otto
