csh - how to automatically kill background processes on logout

Jan B. Andersen jba at harald.ruc.dk
Sat Aug 5 05:44:00 AEST 1989


In Bourne shell background processes started with '&' will automatically
get killed on logout (hangup). But the man page for csh says: "Processes
running in the background (by &) are immune to to signals... including
hangups."

How do I enable SIGHUP? In .logout? Should I kill them instead?
-- 
Jan B. Andersen                              ("SIMULA does it with CLASS")



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