[Sort of ot]: Perl Fork and Exec...

[Ethan Merritt]

On Friday 10 January 2003 15:49, Scholz Matthew wrote:
>  it's wierd, confusing, and
> extremely aggravating.  It also has nothing really to
> do with linux.  It's purely a perl problem, or so it
> appears.  *sigh*

Not even that.  It's a shell problem.  You are sending a
signal to the shell created by exec(), and what happens
to child processes of that shell varies with the shell
configuration.  For csh see hup/nohup.
For bash I can't help (I never did figure out signal
handling in bash).

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