On 05Dec2006 19:47, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | 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.[...] | >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. Um, I'm not so sure. A foreground tail -f should get a SIGHUP and quit. A background one may behave as you describe, being in a different process group. Mike: were your "tail -f"s foreground or background? -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Here was a man who not only had a ready mind and a quick wit, but could also sing. - _Rope_
