On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:49:54 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 09.07.2014 23:11, Mark Carroll a écrit : > > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > > > >> Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : > >>> Martin Read <zen75...@zen.co.uk> writes: > >>> > >>>> On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: > >>>> [regarding double fork] > >>>>> In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? > >>>> > >>>> Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? > >>>> If so, > >>>> your launcher program's design will run into problems in a > >>>> systemd world. > >>>> > >>>> If not, you should be fine. > >>> > >>> Hang on, that sounds scary. I'll still be able to launch something > >>> from the shell (maybe in an xterm) with a trailing & to put it in > >>> the background, and then log out and it will keep on going, right? > >>> > >>> I may not have been paying enough attention ... > > (snip) > >> I thought that, currently, if you close the parent of "something" > >> you > >> have started with '&', "something" will die. > >> Do you speak about nohup instead? > > > > Not knowingly. I ssh in to a machine with bash as my login shell, > > start > > something in the background, log out, log back in, and it's still > > running. For instance, > > > > mtbc@samuel:~$ sleep 12345 & > > [1] 4052 > > mtbc@samuel:~$ exit > > logout > > Connection to samuel closed. > > > > but reconnect later and, > > > > mtbc@samuel:~$ ps awux | grep sleep > > mtbc 4052 0.0 0.0 5792 352 ? S 22:08 0:00 > > sleep 12345 > > mtbc 4138 0.0 0.1 8028 836 pts/3 S+ 22:08 0:00 > > grep sleep > > I just did that, and you are true, it works. > But, when I do that with iceweasel, iceweasel is closed when I exit > the terminal... I guess I just do not understant at all the behavior > of the '&' and will need more reading.
berenger.morel, The plot thickens. How did you exit the terminal? Did you File->Close or type exit at the command prompt, or did you use a window manager "close window" command (usually Alt+F4)? It makes a difference. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140710134201.6e924...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
