Re: bash and '&'

[Chet Ramey <chet at nike dot ins dot cwru dot edu>]

> This is taken from the bash.info file:
> ---from bash.info---
> The shell exits by default upon receipt of a `SIGHUP'.  Before exiting, 
> it resends the `SIGHUP' to all jobs, running or stopped.  To
> prevent the shell from sending the `SIGHUP' signal to a particular job, 
> remove it from the jobs table with the `disown' builtin (*note Job 
> Control Builtins::.) or use `disown -h' to mark it to not receive
> `SIGHUP'.
> ---end bash.info---
> 
> I could find no switches to force this to happen automatically.  Perhaps 
> the AIX bash you used was modified to allow this to happen.

The other half of that is that if bash does *not* exit as the result
of a SIGHUP, such as an EOF on stdin or via the `exit' builtin, it
does not send SIGHUP to any jobs at all.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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