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