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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: cygwin/1.3.20-1 bash child process disassociation behavior weirdness
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:44:29 +0100
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* Richard H. Broberg (03-03-07 22:47 +0100)
> 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.
> 
> The easiest way to test this is:
> 
> in 1 window:
> 
> $ sleep 60 &
> $ exit
> logout
> 
> (parent process (shell window) will not exit until after the child process
> is complete, 60 seconds later)
> 
> Also, this doesn't seem to be limited to bash; I get the same behavior
> in tcsh.
> 
> Is there something I need to do to cause bash to properly disassociate itself
> from child processes so that I get get commands to run in the background
> and leave my shell?

Use rxvt.

Thorsten
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