Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

[Bob Proulx]

Jesse Molina wrote:
> Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run
> backgrounded without being fed tail -f /dev/null.  I wonder if it
> isn't the problem here.  I had discounted it since I redirected both
> stdin and stdout to the logfile.

I have had problems with netcat before.  As I recall (vague memory
now) it does not handle EOF conditions desirably.  I switched my
application to using the connect program (typically used with ssh)
instead.  It handles end conditions much better.

  http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/connect

If that meets your needs then you may find it works better.

Bob