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Re: another 1.10 job control bug?



What you wrote:
> 
> > Just FYI...  Things don't seem to work they way we'd like 'em, even on
> > "real Unix".
> 
> On "real Unix" background jobs do not vanish on logout, but you are on
> Sys V. :-)   Seriously, there is a difference in behaviour between
> BSD and SysV based systems.  On BSD derivatives nohup does exist, but
> it is mostly supreflous besides of portability issues.  Come to think
> of it, I do not know how this is on SGI, which is a strange cross
> between BSD and SysV.

Ah, but does POSIX say anything at all about this, uh, "feature" of SysV?
I suppose if it does, that'll be the deciding factor...

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