Mario Camou wrote: > As far as killing the controlling terminal is concerned, AFAIK it's > standard > Unix practice. If you want the process to stay alive even if you kill > the > terminal, you either redirect its stdin/stdout or use nohup. > -Mario. > > -- > I want to change the world but they won't give me the source code. I know it's not enough justification, but doing an "echo 1" from a backgrounded bash script process doesn't kill the script. I understand that you should redirect STDOUT, but in Ruby should programmers really need to concern about this? Or maybe this would translate to the users of that Ruby program to be forced to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null or something (which also seems a bit weird to me). -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.