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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:39:57 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: AW: Starting Programms in the background
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Try "run.exe" from http://cygutils.netpedia.net/unversioned/run/

If you copy it into the same directory as the target (winword) and
rename run.exe to "runwinword.exe" it should do exactly as you require. 
I think.

--Chuck


Bjoern Kahl AG Resy wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > klaus DOT berndl AT sdm DOT de wrote:
> > > > > How can this be avoided, means how to exit bash regardless
> > > > of any still running background programs?
> 
> > You're right, it happens on NT as well when starting
> > background processes from the console window. This does not happen when
> > starting background processes from a remote session via telnet/ssh.
> > Unfortunately you can't start GUI processes from a remote session.
> 
>  Hi!
> 
>  Just tried it too:
> 
>  bash exits cleanly, but the console-window stays open.
>  (Tried
>   bash> knews &
>   <Ctrl-D>
> 
>   -> "ps" doesnt show the bash any longer,
>      "knews" PPID get set to "1")
> 
>  Question:
>  How to disconnect from controlling terminal under cygwin?
>  There seems no ioctl defined to do that. (looked for some weeks ago).
> 
>  Maybe the console-window goes away, if a small wrapper is used, that
>  disconnects from controlling tty and closes all io-channels to the
>  terminal (stdin,stdout,stderr), then exec()s the real app.
> 
>  Is that possible?
> 
>  Bjoern
> 
> 
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