Followup on netscapes' parent being an xterm.

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

Earlier a question was asked about what happens when you launch
netscape in the background from an xterm and kill the xterm.

The answer made sense , that the netscape is killed when its parent is
killed. BUt that led me to three anomolies:

1. When you run netscape or any other application from the gnome panel
its parent process in init (process 1). How is that pulled off?

2. Used to be that you could run a process in the background, and then
logoff leaving the process running. Am I to conclude that that is not
possible under linux ,  unless you use nohup?

3. When you launch an xterm from an xterm, killing the first xterm does
not kill the second xterm.

Can anyone explain this? And while we are at it on a colleagues machine
running 6.2 killing the xterm just reassigns the parent of the netscape
to be init. 

There are mysteries everywhere.
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