2009/12/4 Christopher Faylor: >>Hang on, if I do this: >> >>$ setsid gvim -display :0 & >> >>in a bash console and then close the console, gvim continues to work, >>so either setsid or gvim itself does detach from the console. > > That makes sense. Cygwin sends explicit SIGHUPs to other members of the > console process group when it receives a CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT. setsid should > fix that. > > You shouldn't need the '&' in the above scenario. Did that actually make > a difference?
I hadn't even tried without, and you're right, setsid doesn't wait for the program to finish anyway. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
