[Linux-disciples] Killing processes when exiting a shell

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Try the following sequence of actions:
> 
> 1) Start a process -- say, mutt -- from the terminal.
> 2) Suspend it with Ctrl+Z.
> 3) You're now back at the terminal window. Type 'exit'.
> 4) The shell warns you that there are jobs still running.
>    Type 'exit' again. The shell quits, and with it the mutt
>    process.
> 
> Is there any way to get the shell not to quit, even if you
> type exit twice? I've accidentally killed a number of
> processes that way.

You can always bg the process before exiting; then it won't be killed.

Other than that, I think you'd need to make a wrapper around 'exit'.

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