LSD is hard to come by lately. Send me the coffee
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 6:05 PM
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] retroactive nohup?
> 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.
>
> heh. how embarrasing. thanks for setting me straight, bill. clearly,
> somebody has been putting lsd in my coffee this morning...
>
> pete
>
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