On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:00:28PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Richard H. Broberg wrote: >> 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. > >An unfortunate consequence of how Windows handles console windows.
This works for me: nohup sleep 30 </dev/null >foo 2>&1& at least with the latest version of cygwin... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
