On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:05:23PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> begin: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:28:17PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > i stupidly started a long process in an xterm. i'd like to shut down X, but
> > > don't want to lose this process.
> >
> > Couldn't you ^Z and then "bg" it? (I assume it's a console process)
>
> argh. i was pretty sure it would die when the controlling pty died. but i
> just did a test with a toy shell script. you're right. it didn't die.
This is a feature of bash: backgrounded jobs are preserved even when bash
itself dies. You still lose the output, though.
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