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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <5144@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 1 Mar 89 14:33:37 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu> <890001@hpausla.HP.COM> <5142@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <4774@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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>+>> If you start newmail as newmail& and you use the c shell, newmail
>+>> will not be killed when you logout as c shell will nohup it.

>+Since we can easily predict that people WILL do this, I say it's a problem
>+that should be fixed.  Why not just set SIGHUP to be sure it gets killed?
>
>Newmail already obeys SIGHUP. This particular user's environment is 
>such that the SIGHUP is not being sent to newmail and that's the problem.

No, newmail does NOT set things to die on SIGHUP - it leaves the 
SIGHUP action in the same state it was when it was run.  Try adding 

signal(SIG_HUP,SIG_DFL);

if you want it to die even if someone uses & from csh.   



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  Jon Zeeff			zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us
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