Closing terminal window dosn't kill sudo'ed program

[Grant Edwards]

Xubuntu 14.04.2, XFCE 4.10, xfce4-terminal 0.6.3

I have a desktop launcher that is configured to run a bash program as
root in a terminal window.   The launcher works fine, but closing the
terminal window doesn't kill the program.  It hangs around forever.

You can see the same thing with this bash script:

------------------------------testit.sh------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
while sleep 1
do
  date
done
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Make it executable, and run it from the command prompt like so:

# xfce4-terminal -x sudo ./testit.sh

And you see this with 'ps axf'

 3305 ?        Sl     0:04          \_ /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal -x sudo ./menu
 3309 ?        S      0:00              \_ gnome-pty-helper
 3341 pts/8    Ss+    0:00              \_ bash
 5292 pts/0    Ss     0:00              \_ bash
 5724 pts/0    R+     0:00              |   \_ ps axf
 5685 pts/10   Ss+    0:00              \_ sudo ./testit.sh
 5686 pts/10   S+     0:00                  \_ /bin/bash ./testit.sh
 5723 pts/10   S+     0:00                      \_ sleep 1
 
Then if you close the terminal (click on 'X' in upper right), the
testi.sh program doesn't get killed.  Even after you close all
terminals, it's still running:

1207 ?        Ss     0:00      \_ init --user
[...]                              [...]
5685 ?        Ss     0:00          \_ sudo ./testit.sh
5686 ?        S      0:00          |   \_ /bin/bash ./testit.sh
6502 ?        S      0:00          |       \_ sleep 1

Hmm. I see similar results on Gentoo with XFCE 4.10 and urxvt instead
of xfce4-terminal, so this is is probably not specific to XFCE...

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