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Bug 115437 - xterm spawns zombies
Summary: xterm spawns zombies
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Emanuele Giaquinta (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2005-12-13 10:58 UTC by Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2006-03-21 07:45 UTC (History)
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Description Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-13 10:58:59 UTC 
When you start xterm as a regular user and run su to become root and then spawn
a process and close the term, the process remains running.  Should not xterm
kill the children processes when it closes?
Comment 1 Thomas Dickey 2006-01-02 13:19:03 UTC 
no, xterm doesn't do that.  root's shell may send a SIGHUP to
the child process, but xterm couldn't do anything about a child
process running as root.
Comment 2 Emanuele Giaquinta (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-21 07:05:50 UTC 
Reassigning bug to myself.
Comment 3 Emanuele Giaquinta (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-21 07:45:49 UTC 
Closing as INVALID.