Background processing

[Gene Horodecki <geneh shaw ca>]

Hi there.  First let me say that I just found MC and I feel like it's 
Christmas!  It does exactly what I want and always available because it 
works in an ssh terminal so thanks to anyone on this list who is a 
developer.

My question is about background processing.  This is what brought me to 
MC because I do a lot of large copies.  I can't find any information on 
how it is supposed to behave though.  Do the background moves and copes 
detach themselves from the terminal session, or is there a way to?  I 
have MC running on Fedora and I've been trying to experiment and not 
getting consistent results.  In some cases I close MC when I have some 
copies going and they keep going, in other cases they stop.  A couple 
times they stopped while i had MC running.  I was also left with 
[defunt] processes.

Could someone tell me how it works for them?  Perhaps it would help me 
figure this out, or if it is even working properly.  Thanks!