Re: killing a terminal window kills all child processes

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2009/1/28 nidhi mittal <nidhimittal19@xxxxxxxxx>:

>
> what i guess is may be evenHandler for windowClosing of terminal explicitly
> sends kill to all processes
> which are children..
>

A terminal emulator could do that (send a KILL to its children), but
it doesn't. Wouldn't it be better for the terminal emulator to notify
its children that it is being closed? SIGHUP is used for this.

-- 
Vimal

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