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From: battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: "-e" option of xterm and immortal processes
Summary: Processes don't die when window (or even server) goes away.
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Date: 2 Jan 90 16:07:23 GMT
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Reply-To: battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle)
Organization: CS Dept -- University of TN, Knoxville
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I like to run an instance of "top" in a window of its own started from my
".xsession" file and using the "-e" option of xterm.  The problem is that
when I log out, the window goes away, but the "top" keeps running, spewing
output to whatever pseudo-tty the window was attached to.  I am currently
killing it by grep'ing through the output of "ps" and killing processes whose
command strings begin with "top".  Is there a better way to do this?

					David L. Battle
					battle@battle.esd.ornl.gov
					battle@utkux1.utk.edu
					battle@utkvx2.BITNET