From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com>
Subject: Re: External MIME viewers are killed when switching article. Why?
Date: 03 May 2001 19:18:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxkd79qja38.fsf@cinnamon.vanillaknot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kpelu6b86u.fsf@utip202.cs.utwente.nl> (Jaap-Henk Hoepman's message of "03 May 2001 20:26:17 +0200")
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.
Does it help if the wrapper is a bash script, the real application is
started in the background, and you then use "disown" on it?
It's a very good point, and I agree that we should be able to keep
such external viewers active beyond the current article.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-03 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-03 18:26 Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2001-05-03 18:39 ` Alan Shutko
2001-05-03 19:03 ` Jaap-Henk Hoepman
2001-05-03 23:18 ` Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
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