kill xterm kills app!

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On Friday 30 April 2004 11:52, Ben Stringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:42, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> > > 
> > > How do I prevent this?
> >     How did you get this? I could not reproduce it - my xclock stays.
> 
> This was my initial re-action too. Then I found that exit/CNTL-D in the
> terminal left the xclock around, but using the "X" window decoration to
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ indeed, it does !?!
> kill it caused the xclock to die also.

    Hmm, this is *VERY* strange, but it's true. If you use
$ (xclock < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &)&
AND press <ENTER> once it will live, but whatever you do if you do not
press <ENTER> it dies! The same things happen with konsole also.
    If you do:
((xclock < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &)&); /bin/true
there's no problem, which made me think it is bash related isue. Even
simple '(xclock&) ; /bin/true' works (xclock does not get killed).
If you 'xterm -e tcsh', to use tcsh instead of bash - there is no
problem. Should we repport this as a bug or is this bash feature?
I think this is bug.

    Can someone from RedHat developers please clarify the situation?

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