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Re: nohup?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: nohup? |
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03 Oct 2003 11:48:37 -0700 |
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Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> So this would work like bash's `disown -h'?
I think it's stronger than disown -h. Not that I'm an expert, but my
impression is that disown -h merely arranges for the subprocess to
continue undisturbed even if Bash is HUPped. But Solaris 'nohup -p
27' makes process 27 immune to nohup, regardless of 27's parent. I
suspect it does this by pretending to be a debugger, attaching to
process 27, and then causing the process to execute the equivalent of
'signal (SIGHUP, SIG_IGN)'. Hairy, huh?
Perhaps disown -h is enough to solve the original requester's problem,
and the original requester can be convinced to use bash. In that case
we're done already. If not, then it's a reasonable request though I
don't want to be the poor schmoe who has to implement it.
Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> You don't need nohup for that. Background processes will just continue
> running after logout.
That's true for many shells, but not all. It's not true for a
POSIX-compliant sh, as far as I can tell from reading the standard.