From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 14:24:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176A737BA67 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 14:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00876; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:24:14 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:24:14 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Joshua Delong Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Application Dependencies (Not make dependencies) Message-ID: <20000508092414.C685@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jdt2101@ksu.edu on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:38:11PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 03:38:11PM -0500, Joshua Delong Thomas wrote: > When I start an app in an xterm, it should be completely dependent upon > the xterm running, right? I'm curious because I run apps from > an xterm and I send it to the background, and when I close the xterm the > process continues running. Is that supposed to happen? Yes, if you're not running sh(1). If you're running sh(1), when the xterm dies, a NOHUP signal is sent to the application. -- Jonathan Chen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message