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From: schmitz@hpscdc.HP.COM (John Schmitz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <7310001@hpscdc.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 04:04:33 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara Div.
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Re: newmail not going away:

>>One solution is to define AUTO_BACKGROUND and have people run newmail without
>>doing ampersands.
> 
> Right.

Would it also be possible to record the id of the parent's shell and
do a kill(parent_id, 0) to detect the parent shell going away?  You'd
have the small problem of process id rollover, but I bet that's a rare
occurrence (anybody know a good way around this?).