On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 14:22:27 -0400, Kris Maglione wrote: > > With that the script already dies as soon as the fetchmaillog window > > opens :-) Given that this seems to be a problem of dash, maybe I > > should file a Debian bug report... > > That would probably be a good idea, if you can come up with a good > test case.
The simplest idea, dash -c 'while true; do xterm & sleep 10; done' unfortunately does not die when I kill the xterm. But I will look into it, reducing the script I have as much as possible.