many tails
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Tue Dec 5 19:47:19 UTC 2006
Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> 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?
I believe so... if the tail did not subsequently try to show any more
output. Only when it tries to issue more output to the now gone-away
terminal session would it get a signal that would end up killing it.
-Andy
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