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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:17:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior 
 weirdness
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> 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.

Could be a CYGWIN=tty issue...
	Igor
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