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In linux, process running in background will be killed if we close the terminal?

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Please understand the scenario :

I have an embedded system, on which i do telnet and then i starts i run an application using ./binary_name &.
Now if i close the terminal, and if i do telnet from new terminal then i can see above process is still running.

Now, To check this, i have written a sample program,

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
    while(1);
}

I just compiled it and i ran it on my linux PC using ./a.out &.
Then i just closed the terminal and from new terminal i checked using ps -elf command this process was killed.

My question is why different behavior for both process. i started both the process in background. Then why?

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance

posted Sep 24, 2015 by anonymous

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Is your local linux and server on which u telnet same :)
No, both are different by version,

Does it matter?
I have only found an answer,



AFAIK in both cases the process should be killed. In order to avoid this you have to issue a nohup like the following:

> nohup ./my_app &

This way your process will continue executing. Probably the telnet part is due to a BUG like the following:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89653
Yes nohup is for freeing the process from terminal so that it keeps on running even after terminal is killed.
As you told different version hence bug may be the root cause.

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Please share a sample program with detail code.

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