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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: newmail also displays on console (bug)
Message-ID: <91@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 89 18:27:32 GMT
References: <316@wubios.wustl.edu> <890001@hpausla.HP.COM> <5142@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <4774@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <2918@epimass.EPI.COM> <117@titania.warwick.ac.uk> <330@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <330@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.UUCP (David J. Camp) writes:
:We have AUTO_BACKGROUND defined, run newmail from csh without an
:ampersand, and it still is not killed WHEN IT WAS RUN FROM THE CONSOLE.
:
:I have studied the code in newmail.c, and I do not see how the process
:put in the background is automatically killed upon logout.  Perhaps
:someone in-the-know can explain to me how this is done.

It's really very simple.  We do nothing, and  when the init process
sends a SIGHUP, we take the default action, to die.


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