Re: gnome-terminal application launcher and wget background running

[Marco Romano <romano.san@gmail.com>]

H.S. has written:

> I then tried the same thing in KDE where konsole opens. In this case
> though closing the konsole also quits wget. So this works okay.

> So on the surface it appears to be a problem in Gnome ... or a feature.

> Any tips how this can be explained or where the problem is?

It's a wget feature:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Signals.html#Signals

When you close a gnome-terminal it sends a SIGHUP to the shell which in 
turn do the same with its child processes (wget included).

Maybe konsole doesn't send HUP signal but directly a SIGKILL?

You can verify it with this tiny script:

#!/bin/bash

trap "a" HUP

a() {
echo "$(date -R) hangup" >>/tmp/foo.log
}

while :; do
sleep 1;
done

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Kind regards,
                                                          Marco Romano.