[Info-vax] Orphaned processes on OpenVMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <ir47rf$qe$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> If someone kills a parent, however, the children don't necessarily die, 
> which is what I suspect the op complained about. VMS is no different. 
> Just because you kill one process, the processes it has 
> spawned/forked/whatever does not neccesarily also die.

   VMS is different.  If you created a detached process it is not
   a child and won't die.  If you spawned a subprocess it will die.