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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:17:44 -0000
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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...

Doesn't work for me, running self-built cvs HEAD cygwin dll.

By doesn't work, I mean:
I copy-paste the exact command above
I Ctrl-D
Bash exits, but the comsole window remains for 30 seconds.

Max.


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