Does linux kill background processes if we close the terminal from which it has started?

Question

I have an embedded system, on which I do telnet and then I run an application in background:

./app_name &

Now if I close my te

Answer 1

AFAIK in both cases the process should be killed. In order to avoid this you have to issue a nohup like the following:

> nohup ./my_app &

This way your process will continue executing. Probably the telnet part is due to a BUG similar to this one:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89653