Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: homer.pentek.org: charles set sender to charles@pentek.com using -f Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:53:35 -0400 From: Charles Krug To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Backgrounding processes Message-ID: <20020618155335.GE2824@pentek.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1024414594.abc380djwilson@drew.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1024414594.abc380djwilson@drew.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 11:36:34AM -0400, David J. Wilson wrote: > Hi, > > Seems like it's no longer possible to properly background a process. What I mean is, in the past I could run something like fetchmail (i.e. fetchmail -d 900), exit my shell, and it would keep running. Now when I run fetchmail in such a manner, if I try and exit the shell it hangs, and when I forcefully close the window, fetchmail goes along with it. Same thing happens with other programs. I know for certain that it used to work. I'm doing exactly that with fetchmail, under Win95. I've had no problems with it yet. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/