an octave unix execution question

[Terrence Brannon]

We have a user, who is having a situation on 3 different platforms
with 2.0.9: alpha-linux, dec-osf-3.2, and libc6 pentium linux. She
invokes octave from the shell and then types in the name of the file
containing the code she wants to execute, sans `.m'

Then she does what I didnt think could be done: she types control-z,
then types bg and then logs out of the machine. When she logs back in,
the jobs is apparently still running (top displays its status as R).

When I tried this, I got the following scenario:

address@hidden ~/rs/octave : octave
Octave, version 2.0.9 (alpha-dec-osf3.2).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.

octave.bin:1> simple

[1]+  Stopped                 octave
address@hidden ~/rs/octave : exit
exit
There are stopped jobs.
address@hidden ~/rs/octave :    

But she is not warned "There are stopped jobs." when she makes her
first exit attempt.

Lately she has been saying that Octave has been dying on her when she
does this, but, I did not think this was unusual, for I thought all
child processes, bg'ed or not, would be killed upon exit.

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