correct me if i'm wrong, but when invoking vim -g you are invoking the gui editor, thus forking off a new process in the background, so when your shell is terminated, the gui isnt. --r -----Original Message----- From: Craig Van Tassle [mailto:craigat_private] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 2:55 AM To: vuln-dev Cc: bugtraq; security-basics Subject: vim error? I was playing about with my syslog and i noticed that after i exited one of my xterms (the one that i started vim from) the editor was still up and running with root access.. the command i use was vim -g /etc/syslog.conf could this be a problem or am i only going oh my god at a feature? Could this be from vim's not handeling the removal of the controling terminal correctly?? I know that with emacs if i start it from a shell and then kill the shell all processses from it are killed. Any one have any ideas? Thanks Craig
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