Brian Dessent wrote: > > If you just want your program to simply run in the > background, launch it with a "&" at the end of the command > from the shell. However, if it expects to use stdout, stdin, > or stderr, it will stop -- so these must all be redirected to files > or pipes.
not exactly correct the program does not stop, stdin is not accessible via the shell, but stdout and stderr are by default, still routed to it. $ cat back.c #include <stdio.h> int main (void) { int ctr = 0; printf("From stdout\n"); fprintf(stderr, "From stderr\n"); for (ctr = 0; ctr < 5; ++ctr) { printf("%d\n", ctr); sleep(2); } return(0); } WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ ./a & [2] 5076 WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> $ From stdout From stderr 0 1 2 3 4 [2]+ Done ./a -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/