Subject: Re: bash and '&'
From: [email-masked] (Earnie Boyd)

10 Apr 1998 09:54:08 -0700
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[email-masked] wrote:
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> Hi Michael, you wrote:
> 
> : If you test this on a Linux machine, you can run any "command &",
then
> : exit bash and "command" still survives - it will get init as parent
> : process !
> 
> My usual trick is "(command&)" [or "(command>cmd.log 2>&1 &)"].
> Since the additional subshell dies first, the command gets
reparented to 1.
> 

This still leaves a command window stub on exit for non-cygwin
(Sergey's input to this thread) executables.  For the console window
stub to disappear the background jobs must have "tty support" (I
haven't tested this so please report if you find it isn't correct).
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