On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 08:37:38PM +0100, ck...@web.de wrote: > >You could also "disown -h" it and avoid that the signal is sent at > all. > >This is especially helpful, if a program resets its signal handlers > >(e.g. xemacs?). > What I am saying is, this is not working! > Please try if you can reproduce what I wrote. > If so try to use disown -h. Doesn't make a difference.
If you want to disown something, you have to *stop* doing this double-fork nonsense. #!/bin/bash set -m xterm & disown -h Do not put (...) around the background job. When you do that, the main bash process loses its parenthood over the xterm process, so it won't be able to manage it. I'm not 100% sure if the set -m will be required to enable "disown" to work, but I'd try it that way.
