From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-06-05T18:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Please kill the children as you're leaving

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> Advance Programming in the Unix Environment, p.267 (R. Stevens) says:
>
>   SIGHUP .... This signal is also generated if the session leader
>   terminates. In this case, the signal is sent to each process in the
>   foreground process group.
>
> It sounds like it should be possible to arrange for sighup to be sent to
> an entire process group automatically if the session leader terminates.
> <<<<<<<<<<<<




You get this automatically. I assumed that the OP was raising the issue
because he's running in some environment (like a daemon or a cron job) where
there is no controlling tty or foreground process group.

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