many tails

[Mike - EMAIL IGNORED]

On FC4 with KDE, I ran ps -ef and noticed that there
were many old /usr/bin/tail processes.  They all
looked like tail -f that I had run.  I wrote
a script to kill -9 them.  I ran tests and found
that if I exit tail -f with ctrl-c the processes
disappears, but if I close a KDE window on a
tail -f without ctrl.c, the processes persists.

Is this the way it should be?

Thanks for your comments.
Mike.