On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 09:36:58AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Tom Hughes <t...@compton.nu> said:
> > On 27/05/16 15:25, Chris Adams wrote:
> > >When you "clean up" by killing things that are designed to run after
> > >logout, you are being over-zealous.  It is incumbent upon you to fix
> > >your cleanup methods to handle this case, not the thousands of users
> > >to change their process to avoid your broken methods.
> > 
> > But that's effectively calling for the impossible - if there has
> > historically been no way for things to announce that they are
> > expected to remain after exit then there's no way to magically
> > identify them now.
> > 
> > What would be good would be if screen and similar programs could
> > learn to do the necessary magic automatically rather than having to
> > be wrapped in systemd-run by the user.
> 
> And that's what I'm suggesting.  Before making this the default in
> systemd, the systemd developers should come up with a way for processes
> to make some type of notification, and then get patches into the common
> things (screen and tmux at least, with freely-licensed example code for
> others to use) to handle this.  Only then should the default be changed.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
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