On Wednesday 30 November 2005 07:05, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > 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
That's pretty much what I thought. Can these calls be blocked using systrace?
