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Re: NOHUP
- Subject: Re: NOHUP
- From: Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 17:36:15 +0200 (GMT--1:00)
Oommen Thomas wrote:
> AFAIK, unless we spec a 'nohup' any user process running in the
> background, will terminate once s/he logs out.
Not necessarily. The process will receive SIGHUP. The default
disposition for SIGHUP is to terminate the process, but a program can
override this if it wishes.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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