From: dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: bash and '&'
9 Apr 1998 22:34:10 -0700
Message-ID: <009C4797.EFCD3820.5891.cygnus.gnu-win32@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: mh@mike.franken.de
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de

Hi Michael, you wrote:

: If you test this on a Linux machine, you can run any "command &", then
: exit bash and "command" still survives - it will get init as parent
: process !

My usual trick is "(command&)" [or "(command>cmd.log 2>&1 &)"].
Since the additional subshell dies first, the command gets reparented to 1.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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