RE: vim error?

["Ryan Yagatich" <ryany () pantek com>]

correct me if i'm wrong, but when invoking vim -g you are invoking the gui
editor, thus forking off a new process in the background, so when your shell
is terminated, the gui isnt.

--r

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Van Tassle [mailto:craig () ambrosa dns04 com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:55 AM
To: vuln-dev
Cc: bugtraq; security-basics
Subject: vim error?


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