Re: musings on session service mgmt

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:29 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:

> Maybe it's just me, but I think it's a lot easier to just fix the few
> programs such as screen and nohup to opt out of getting reaped.. 

Unix has had a pretty standard definition of "session" using SIGHUP.
The way programs have historically "opted out" of termination is to
ignore that signal.

I don't think we should change that.

Rather, some programs should be fixed to gain a dep on X11, DBus, or be
run through the babysitter.