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> Back when SIGHUP was created all software that wanted to ignore it needed to make a handler False. People ran such softwares via the nohup command. No prog
by JdeBP 9y ago
> Back when SIGHUP was created all software that wanted to ignore it needed to make a handler
False. People ran such softwares via the nohup command. No program modifications were needed. They still aren't.
- MertsA 9y agoYeah but that's exactly the same situation we're in right now with distros turning on KillUserProcesses. I can start whatever processes I want to in another scope without having to modify those processes.
- JdeBP 9y ago... but not with general-purpose tools that use the standard semantics that have been around since 7th Edition. Only with Linux-specific and systemd-specific tools. Which is why it of course is not the same situation at all.