Re: EOF disowns background jobs?

[Sven Mascheck]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:

>> (bash exits, leaving some-command running)

> How could you run daemons from the command line otherwise?

I'm curious, what do you mean with daemons here?

I'd expect real daemons to detach from the terminal and create
a new session / new process group.  Or is it, that just too
few actually do?

Certainly, nohup(1) has been used traditionally for such
purposes - but it becomes useless, if programs reset their
signal handlers at startup (e.g., some xemacs), and is
quite inconvenient because one has to decide at startup.