[BSD-INDIA] Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

[Siju George]

This happens in FreeBSD I forgot to add.

Thanks

Siju

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started Firefox from an xterm.
> Then I pressed <ctrl> +Z
> And the I typed bg to background Firefox process.
> But when I close xterm firefox also closes.
> Why is that?
> This not the behavior in any other BSD or linux :-(
>
> thanks
>
> Siju
>