[haiku-development] Re: Bash and Jobs

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'd be all for it, too. I guess you suggest to enable the "shopt -s
> > huponexit" by default?
> 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). It would 
> also 
> avoid risking data loss (imagine you started an editor into the 
> background). But I suppose it mainly depends on what you're used 
> to...

Since other shells obviously don't do this, I would consider it a 
fixable quirk of bash. IOW I would bash do the same wether it has been 
killed or not, that would give us the consistency back; also, "shopt -s 
huponexit" could change the behaviour of both, too.

Bye,
   Axel.

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