[Linux-disciples] Killing processes when exiting a shell

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:50:17PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> 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'.

Hm. Check out the man page for bash(1):

       The  shell  exits by default upon receipt of a SIGHUP.  Before exiting, an interactive shell resends the SIGHUP to
       all jobs, running or stopped.  Stopped jobs are sent SIGCONT to ensure that they receive the SIGHUP.   To  prevent
       the  shell  from  sending the signal to a particular job, it should be removed from the jobs table with the disown
       builtin (see SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below) or marked to not receive SIGHUP using disown -h.

       If the huponexit shell option has been set with shopt, bash sends a SIGHUP to all jobs when an  interactive  login
       shell exits.

I wonder if something in the same area would help me here.

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