> On 8/28/07, Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Well, either that or change the SIGHUP handling to leave existing > > jobs > > alone. I actually tend towards liking that stuff I fire up into the > > background survives closing the terminal (as under BeOS). > > I REALLY think that stuff started in the background from the shell > should survive the shell closing. if I mistakenly start something equivalent to rm -Rf / and notice it before it's too late I'd be really glad closing the shell window kills the thing :D François.