Normally, when a parent exits, all child processes are killed. This is not 
specific to terminal/tty sessions. However, a process can be detached from its 
parent so that it will survive the parent's exit. I doubt that NSTask does 
this, but you should verify.

Create a dummy helper: int main() {while(1) sleep(1);}

Use NSTask to launch it. Kill your parent in various ways and verify that the 
child gets killed: kill -9, call abort, crash it with the time-honored 
*(char*)0 = 0.

-- 
Scott Ribe
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