Re: [Help-bash] Command run in the background (with '&' at the end) still runs even when the user exit from the login shell?

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/12/13, 5:53 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My previous impression was that processes run with '&' will be
> automatically terminated once the user logs out. But I just checked
> with the following example, it seems that these processes will
> continue to run until finished.

Bash introduced the `huponexit' shell option in bash-2.02, which was
released about 15 years ago.  Before that, it would only pass a SIGHUP
it received through to its children (which it still does).  I don't
know of any shells that killed background jobs at exit, but that doesn't
mean the kernel didn't SIGHUP jobs with the same controlling terminal
when a session leader exits.

Chet

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