killing bkgnd process on logout (was: Re^2: Checking for new mail)

[J. William]

In article <130 at isgtec.UUCP> bmw at isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
> [...]
>If I run my checkmail process in the background from CTIX csh, then log out,
>checkmail dies.  If I do that on Sun csh, it behaves as your man page
>suggests (ignores SIGHUP).  I suspect that other SysV csh's also behave more
>like sh(1) than BSD csh in this regard.

I suspect that when checkmail is not ignoring SIGHUP.  Rather, BSD csh
puts each background job into a separate process group to facilitate
job control.  Only the process group currently in the forground is
attached to the controlling terminal.
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