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From: dhoelzer@csserv2.ic.sunysb.edu (David S Hoelzer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: how process in background can kill itself after logout (BSD unix).
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.011842.27618@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 91 01:18:42 GMT
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Another easy way to have a bg process commit suicide is this:(I havent got any
code handy, so a description will have to do)

	get the tty from which it was run.
	Every so often, spawn a process to check the tty to see if it is still
	owned by it's parent.  If not, out it goes..
	
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