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Re: Procs never die after closing rxvt

From: Travis Spencer <tspencer at cs dot pdx dot edu>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 08:40:33 -0700
Subject: Re: Procs never die after closing rxvt
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

Alexander wrote:

> > If I close rxvt w/ the X button in the titlebar, the programs that I
> > pass to it on the commandline continue running.  After a while, I end
> > up w/ dozens of tcsh and bash processes hanging around.  What am I
> > doing wrong in the invocation of the terminal?
>
> most likely nothing. This sometimes happens with xterm too. The processes
> started from rxvt get no information that their parent process has died.

Is there any way to rectify this or is this just the way it is?

-- 

Regards,

Travis Spencer

References:
- Re: Procs never die after closing rxvt
  - From: Alexander Gottwald

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