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Re: bash and '&'
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: bash and '&'
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 27 Mar 1998 22:05:00 +0100
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi raf,
>Wei Ku wrote:
>
>>>I want to leave a simple program running after quiting the shell, and
>>>even logging off. It's done under unix by adding '&'. I failed to do
>>>this using cygwin32. Is it supposed to behave the same way under
>>>cygwin32? What should I do?
>
>>As far as I can tell, the only shell that will do what you describe is bash.
>>Did you run bash or sh when you log in ?
>
>i thought this was done with 'nohup'.
>'&' only puts the process in the backgroup.
>it doesn't make it ignore the HUP and QUIT signals,
>or does it?
This depends on the shell, you are running this command with.
bash does not need "nohup" - at least bash on Linux systems.
Bourne shell normally needs "nohup".
>
>
>raf
Bye.
Michael.
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