Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> writes: > The problem is that, if for some reason or other, I terminate the > GNU/sreen instance, the orphaned processes still run under the init > process.
I also have this problem. One of my backticks is backtick 1 0 0 tail -f ~/.emacs.d/irc-activity which is a file that Emacs appends to when the IRC activity string changes; so the last line might go from [#e] to [#e,#h]. On some servers (where Emacs isn't even installed!) I might have a dozen leftover tail processes of this kind, due to screen being automatically started when I log in, and closed when I close my last window. Now that you've brought this issue to my attention, I suppose the solution is simply for Screen to close each backticks' stdout stream when the session ends. _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users