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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:37:21 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Slight patch for Cron
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:31:05AM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> I've "developed" an insignificant patch to cron (attached) that makes cron 
> detach from the console before forking out (under Cygwin only). The patch 
> is against the current release's source and WFM.

Did you try a recent developers snapshot?  This should be accomplished
by the setsid call in the child (right after fork).

Corinna

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