On Jan 18, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

> 
> Nope. In Unix, a process is killed when its parent process exits.

Not true. It looks like the case at a cursory level because session management 
does this when you're in the terminal. There are various ways to arrange for a 
process to exit when its parent exits. But it is *not* the case that a process 
is automatically killed when its parent exits.

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