Re: External MIME viewers are killed when switching article. Why?

[Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl>]

I tried that; problem is, staroffice itself is started through a wrapper
scripts spawning several other programs. The nohup doesn't protect against
xemacs `killing' those.

Jaap-Henk

On Thu, 03 May 2001 14:39:38 -0400 Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
> Jaap-Henk Hoepman <hoepman@cs.utwente.nl> writes:
> 
> > I tried specifying a small wrapper to handle the MIME type which in
> > turn spawns the real application in the background, but this doesn't
> > work. Apparently, Xemacs, when asked to delete a process, sends
> > SIGHUP to _all_ processes in the process group.
> 
> Well, you could nohup the application.  You'll also have to make sure
> the file it's loading is still there when it's done loading, since
> iirc, Gnus will delete the file after the helper-app returns.
> 
> Something like
> 
> cp $1 $TMPDIR/$1.$$ 
> nohup soffice $TMPDIR/$1.$$
> 
> -- 
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