Logging off does not kill process in Windows Server 2003

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Published on 2010-04-22T03:45:31Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 3:54 UTC
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I have a Windows Server 2003(Enterprise, SP2).

My understanding was that any process created by a user will be terminated when the user loggs off the account. But its not happening. I login via Administrator account. Start a simple java process and logoff. But the process is not killed.

Is there any configuration for this or something?

I am mostly a software programmer and not much in to servers and so I am stuck. I found out that while logging off, 1) Win32 is supposed to send a CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT to all processes started by that user. 2) JVM is supposed to handle this event and terminate the VM.

But I can't understand why my java process is not killed when i logoff.

Any idea!!!

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