On 01/06/16 12:19, Howard Chu wrote:
This is still looking at the problem back-asswards. The problem isn't
that screen and tmux are special cases. The problem is that some handful
of programs that got spawned in a GUI desktop environment are special
cases, not exiting when they should.
I'm sorry, but I disagree.
There are basically three things that I'm aware of that are used from a
user session to run something in background in a way that will survive
the end of the user session and you named them - nohup, screen and tmux.
Anything else I put in background with "&" in my shell will be killed
when I log out unless it has been disowned which is basically a shell
builtin version of nohup.
So things which are intended to survive the end of a login session
really are the special case. The default behaviour has always been that
things are killed when you logout, it's just that the way of enforcing
that (sending a SIHGHUP) is fairly gentle so things can easily survive
without really intending to.
Tom
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