Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On FC4 with KDE, I ran ps -ef and noticed that there were many old /usr/bin/tail processes. They all looked like tail -f that I had run. I wrote a script to kill -9 them. I ran tests and found that if I exit tail -f with ctrl-c the processes disappears, but if I close a KDE window on a tail -f without ctrl.c, the processes persists. Is this the way it should be?
I believe so... if the tail did not subsequently try to show any more output. Only when it tries to issue more output to the now gone-away terminal session would it get a signal that would end up killing it.
-Andy
