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It’s a mess that originates from the dated concept of terminals and that users are necessarily bound with interactive sessions from them. Without the notion of
by bluetomcat 4y ago
It’s a mess that originates from the dated concept of terminals and that users are necessarily bound with interactive sessions from them. Without the notion of terminals and special control sequences, process hierarchy control can be much simpler and more orthogonal. A “signal” would be sent to the leaf processes in the hierarchy first, then they terminate, notifying their parent and so on.
- zozbot234 4y ago> It’s a mess that originates from the dated concept of terminals and that users are necessarily bound with interactive sessions from them. The concept has been revived (in a notoriously clunky way that's likely not directly compatible with previous facilities) via multiseat support in more recent Linux distributions.