I'm trying to port a simple automatic downloading script from Windows to Linux. I run wget from inside a gnome-terminal or an xterm. If somebody closes the window, wget keeps going, invisibly, and redirects its output to a log file. This seems specific to wget, not a general characteristic of the terminals, and in this case it is not desirable behavior. It creates elaborate extra steps in trying to cancel an executing script, and for users who don't understand this counterintuitive phenomenon it can lead to situations where multiple instances of wget, only one of which is visible, are trying to download the same file at the same
This may be such a well-established feature that nobody cares but me, but I figured I should say something while I'm thinking about it. A command-line option to disable this behavior might be nice.
