Re: EOF disowns background jobs?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> Sven Mascheck wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Let's just say the situation is much better than it was in the past.

Sven: I should point out that a more practical use case (and this is how 
this came up originally) is launching X apps from a terminal emulator. 
These usually don't fork()+exec() (nor should they).

I tend to either /want/ these to run in the foreground, or else I use 
this near scriptlet: "$@" &>/dev/null & disown

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