Re: vim error?

[Dean <dean () deanandadie net>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:55:02AM -0600, Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> I was playing about with my syslog and i noticed that after i exited one of my xterms (the one that i started vim 
> from) the editor was 
> still up and running with root access..  
> the command i use was vim -g /etc/syslog.conf
> could this be a problem or am i only going oh my god at a feature?
> Could this be from vim's not handeling the removal of the controling terminal correctly?? 
> I know that with emacs if i start it from a shell and then kill the shell all processses from it are killed.
>
> Any one have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Craig


Tested with vim 5.6 with no results.

malfunction:0.0 brundage-> uname -a
SunOS malfunction 5.8 Generic_108528-07 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

malfunction:0.0 brundage-> vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled May 30 2000 15:23:08)
<snip>


Process list after exiting controling terminal:

malfunction:0.0 brundage-> ps -ef | egrep vim
brundage  8595     1  1 11:04:27 ?        0:00 vim -g /etc/syslog.conf

--Dean
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