[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#578624: josm does not start via "josm & exit"

[David Paleino]

severity 578624 minor
thanks

Hello Christoph,
I'm setting severity to minor -- this is a use-case I've rarely seen, and 
doesn't really affect JOSM's usability.

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 19:32:29, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 13:25 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> > If you exit the shell, you also kill all its children processes --
> 
> No...
> a) What you probably refer to is that shells may send SIGHUP to it's
> childprocesses, which bash does not per default. (huponexit=off)
> 
> b) Even if it would be on, it would just send SIGHUP but neither SIGKILL
> (as you stated) or SIGTERM, etc.
> 
> > and josm is one of them.
> 
> Just try it with another application, e.g.
> $ xman & exit
> 
> I observe, that xman stays open, but the shell exits.

Why can't you do Alt+F2 → josm ? :)
Or, if you want to close the shell, why not clicking the icon? ;)

Seriously, I tried this with liferea and okular too, and it works as you say.

> I guess there most be some other error here.
> 
> E.g. when starting josm like that:
> 
> $ josm > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & exit
> 
> It starts normally (while the shell/terminal are closed.).

Ok, I see.

I can't really say what's going wrong, nor where to start looking from.
I'll try some googling as soon as I have a bit more time.

Sorry for not being much helpful.
David

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