On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Christian Franke wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Yep, so, as CGF noted, try > > > > $ /usr/sbin/syslogd >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null > > $ exit > > That makes no difference. Shell exits but console window persists (at > least on XP SP2) until syslogd is terminated. > > Did you get a different result?
No, I actually was able to reproduce your result without using syslogd: $ setsid sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null $ exit (shell prints "logout", but window remains until sleep is over). In fact, closing the file descriptors doesn't work either: $ setsid sleep 10 >&- 2>&- <&- $ exit (same result). I've generated the strace for the above cases, and will take a deeper look when time permits. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/