[haiku-development] Re: Bash and Jobs

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.

In regards to your original question, I believe closing the window and
typing exit should have the same behavior. In this case the behavior
of exit.

> 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...

I think the least surprising thing is to leave background processes alone.

All systems I've used have worked this way, AFAIK.

Ryan

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