Re: Problems with spawning windows

[RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

On Wed, 26 May 2021, Jason Mitchell wrote:

> testwin.sh opens an xterm and has the xterm run testwin2.sh. testwin2.sh 
> then runs testwin3.sh which opens another xterm running rinetd.sh
>
> The problem is when testwin2.sh finishes the windows it spawned close as 
> well. However, if I just run testwin2.sh from the command line this doesn't 
> happen.

There is a poorly-documented difference in behavior between
interactive vs. non-interactive shells, and how they handle
backgrounded scripts, that might be at issue here.

Basically, non-interactive shells terminate backgrounded programs
when they exit (interactive shells do not) and so those programs
need to be run with "nohup" to protect them.

I'm sure kre@ will be able to quote chapter and verse here.

-RVP