Normal behavior, Or Bug?

[shmuel siegel]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 10:28, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:50:25PM -0500, slim wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > I was just wondering if this behavior is normal..
> > When copying text from any application and pasting to any other
> > location, The copied text will be lost if the application from which you
> > copied is shut down..
> 
> This is a property of how X selection works. There has been considerable
> discussion on the Gnome lists about whether to change this.
> 
There seems to be a change in how standard out works. In fc1, if I
closed down a window which was receiving log message from a background
app, the app continued and the messages went to who knows where. In FC2,
the app terminates. Is this deliberate?