The file /usr/bin/libreoffice is a soft link to soffice, a Bourne shell script. Inside the script, the soffice.bin executable is invoked.
The source code indicates that soffice.bin is the one starting a background process that does not finish before soffice.bin exits. See: https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/shell/source/unix/exec/shellexec.cxx Go to line 218: OString cmd = #ifdef LINUX // avoid blocking (call it in background) "( " + aBuffer.makeStringAndClear() + " ) &"; #else aBuffer.makeStringAndClear(); #endif FILE *pLaunch = popen(cmd.getStr(), "w"); if ( pLaunch != nullptr ) { if ( 0 == pclose( pLaunch ) ) return; It would be interesting to understand why for only Linux, the request is executed in background. In my opinion, this is undesirable for command line execution in any O/S. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1777285 Title: Batch libreoffice --convert-to offers no way to wait for document completion To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1777285/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
