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graemepyesterday at 2:41 PM1 replyview on HN

This is not a genuine improvement:

> One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too.

Killing processes that the user clearly did not want killed is a regression.

Reading the rest of article it seems that its fixed but made things a lot more complicated than "unless you deliberately start things so that they keep running when you logout they will be killed when you logout". Am I wrong?


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preg_matchyesterday at 9:16 PM

I don't think it's a regression at all. It's been standard advice for decades that logout-login wipes user processes for updates, therefore you don't need to restart.

I'd argue the opposite is true: linger is surprising, and I turn it off.