giacomo boffi <boffi(a)rachele.stru.polimi.it&gt; writes: Did you seen the patch I sent for this Jan P.S. If not here it is again Index: process-unix.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/src/process-unix.c,v retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -u -r1.11 process-unix.c --- process-unix.c 1998/06/30 06:35:58 1.11 +++ process-unix.c 1998/08/20 21:19:22 ＠＠ -920,12 +920,14 ＠＠ EMACS_SET_TTY_PROCESS_GROUP (xforkin, &piddly); } -# ifdef AIX /* On AIX, we've disabled SIGHUP above once we start a child on a pty. Now reenable it in the child, so it - will die when we want it to. */ + will die when we want it to. + JV: This needs to be done ALWAYS as we might have inherited + a SIG_IGN handling from our parent (nohup) and we are in new + process group. + */ signal (SIGHUP, SIG_DFL); -# endif /* AIX */ } #endif /* HAVE_PTYS */