Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

[Mark Carroll <mtbc@ixod.org>]

Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> writes:

> On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote:
> [regarding double fork]
>> In other words, it's going to bust my program, right?
>
> Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, 
> your launcher program's design will run into problems in a systemd world.
>
> If not, you should be fine.

Hang on, that sounds scary. I'll still be able to launch something 
from the shell (maybe in an xterm) with a trailing & to put it in
the background, and then log out and it will keep on going, right?

I may not have been paying enough attention ...

-- Mark