Bug 115437

Summary:	xterm spawns zombies
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Emanuele Giaquinta (RETIRED) <exg>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	dickey, radek
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.