Re: "gitk &" closes parent bash upon exit

[Keith Thompson]

"Illia Bobyr" <Illia.Bobyr@ronin-capital.com> writes:
[...]
>      When I do "gitk &" upon gitk exit the parent bash process 
> terminates as well.
>      When I do "(gitk &)" it works fine.  There does not seem to be any 
> crash dumps.  But sometimes bash outputs "Logout" before it exits just 
> as if I would press ^D on prompt.  I have tried putting "gitk &" call 
> into a script and adding traps for all possible signals but none seemed 
> to be fired.
>      You do not have to be in a directory that is a Git repository.

I wonder how "set -o ignoreeof" in the parent shell would affect
the behavior.

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