Works for me using rxvt. "Richard H. Broberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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. > > The easiest way to test this is: > > in 1 window: > > $ sleep 60 & > $ exit > logout > > (parent process (shell window) will not exit until after the child process > is complete, 60 seconds later) > > Also, this doesn't seem to be limited to bash; I get the same behavior > in tcsh. > > Is there something I need to do to cause bash to properly disassociate itself > from child processes so that I get get commands to run in the background > and leave my shell? >
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