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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:11:02 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:00:28PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Richard H. Broberg wrote:
>> In non-cygwin unix I'm familiar with being able to do the following
>> in a shell (bash or other):
>>
>> $ nohup long-running-command &
>> $ exit
>>
>> and be able to leave it running.
>>
>> However, under cygwin (this has been true for at least back to
>> cygwin/1.3.6 for me), when I start a process in the background and
>> try to exit
>> my bash shell, it hangs until the child process completes (almost as
>> if it's doing a wait() on its children).
>>
>> Additionally, if I start a command nohup in the background in 1 bash
>> shell and close the window, it kills the child process.
>
>An unfortunate consequence of how Windows handles console windows.

This works for me:

nohup sleep 30 </dev/null >foo 2>&1&

at least with the latest version of cygwin...

cgf

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