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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:10:06 +0100 (BST)
From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: where is all terminal output sent if the controlling terminal is
	closed?
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I occasionally build ports with extra logs enabled.
When I then launch such programs from, say xterm
on the background (&), I get lots of output on
the controlling terminal. If I then close the
terminal, where does all the output goes?
I presume it's still being sent to the PID
of the parent xterm. But this process no
longer exists, so what happens then?

Thanks
Anton