[ale] fun with processes

[ryanbridges at mindspring.com]

You may want to take a look at the 'screen' utility.  it comes with
mandrake (though you have to manually go through the packages and select
it).  It doesn't do that exactly, background processes die once the parent
shell exits.  

Ryan

On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Ben Phillips wrote:

> Is there a way to resume a backgrounded process from a shell other than the
> one that initiated it?  If not, why?
> 
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