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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:13:41 am by StuartYeates
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:17:06 pm by WikiAdmin Revert
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 In the software context; processes spawned by other processes. 
  
 If a parent process goes away, various things happen such as 
-* Children get sent a [SIGHUP], it's not that if the parent process goes away, it's if the terminal goes away, normally closing the session leader closes the terminal too . :)  
+* Children get sent a [SIGHUP], most processing die when receiving a [SIGHUP]. This is what happens when you close a [Terminal] and the processes started from it are killed
 * Children that ignore [SIGHUP] get reparented to init 
  
 If a child process goes away, the parent gets a [SIGCHLD] 
  
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 The context for which this page was required refers to 'sprogs', or 'little people'. See also BadgeWearers