Re: Asynchronous shell command that leaves a background process running

[Sean McAfee]

Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
> Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> writes:
>> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
>>> Try this.
>>>
>>> (let ((process-connection-type nil))  ; Use a pipe instead of pty
>>>       (shell-command "foo bar blub &"))

>> Nice!  Thanks.

> I think Pascals point is still valid: Why can't your script wait for
> it's children to die ? 

Well, because one of the children is a window-manifesting program that
might persist for many hours.

More specifically, what I've been calling "real-program" is a Java
program that interacts with an intranet web server, downloads a JNLP
file, and invokes Java Web Start on that file.