killing bkgnd process on logout (was: Re^2: Checking for new mail)

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From: Bruce Walker
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 12:29

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In article <92@harald.UUCP> jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
>>In article <128@isgtec.UUCP> bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
>>[ in BSD systems ]
>>the process
>>disconnects from your tty and continues running ...
>
>This has nothing to do with BSD vs Sys V.
>
>        [CSH man page excerpt deleted]

Well, it sort-of does.  Csh's under SysV are usually sub-sets of full-blown
BSD csh's, and don't behave the same.

I am using csh as implimented by Convergent Technologies' CTIX (essentially
SysV) and csh as implimented by Sun (4.0.1).

If I run my checkmail process in the background from CTIX csh, then log out,
checkmail dies.  If I do that on Sun csh, it behaves as your man page
suggests (ignores SIGHUP).  I suspect that other SysV csh's also behave more
like sh(1) than BSD csh in this regard.
-- 
Bruce Walker                          ...uunet!mnetor!lsuc!isgtec!bmw
"Better Living Through Connectivity"         ...utzoo!lsuc!isgtec!bmw
ISG Technologies Inc. 3030 Orlando Dr. Mississauga. Ont. Can. L4V 1S8

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!isgtec!bmw
From: bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: killing bkgnd process on logout (was: Re^2: Checking for new mail)
Summary: csh under Sys5 is not like csh under BSD
Message-ID: <130@isgtec.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 12:29:57 GMT
References: <105@csnz.co.nz> <1989Aug26.200813.15629@twwells.com> <64@calcite.UUCP> <128@isgtec.UUCP> <1989Aug30.053137.2047@ctr.columbia.edu> <92@harald.UUCP>
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