Procs never die after closing rxvt

[Travis Spencer]

Alexander wrote:

> > If I close rxvt w/ the X button in the titlebar, the programs that I
> > pass to it on the commandline continue running.  After a while, I end
> > up w/ dozens of tcsh and bash processes hanging around.  What am I
> > doing wrong in the invocation of the terminal?
>
> most likely nothing. This sometimes happens with xterm too. The processes
> started from rxvt get no information that their parent process has died.

Is there any way to rectify this or is this just the way it is?

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Regards,

Travis Spencer