daemon dies on xterm kill

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 29-May-2002 John Hunter wrote:
> 
> I am trying to write an xmlrpc server daemon.  When I 'exit' the xterm
> that I launch the daemon in, the exit never completes and I still get
> output from the server about connection attempts, though I lose my
> prompt.  This occurs whether I launch the program w/ or w/o nohup in
> the background.  I am trying to launch it as a regular user, not
> root.  Is there something wrong with my daemon code or the way I am
> launching it:
> 

xterm is still the controlling terminal because you never dropped it.