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

[Supreet Joshi]

I have observed this behaviour even on  Debian and Ubuntu, with bash prompt.When I see ps output, I see PPID of the main firefox (/usr/bin/firefox) to be the PID of the bash process. I am not sure though if this is a desired behaviour. 
(Should the child be killed if parent proc is closed ?)
--- On Sat, 23/8/08, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [BSD-INDIA] Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded
To: "BSD users in India" <bsd-india at bsd-india.org>
Date: Saturday, 23 August, 2008, 2:40 PM

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
>
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