Workaround for hanging shells on exit

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Tue Jan 23 18:08:21 EST 2001


On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Damien Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > While browsing through bash's hugh manpage, I noticed that it has a
> > 'huponexit' option which will send SIGHUP to all interactive processes
> > when the shell exits.
> >
>
> Works if you don't do:
>
> nohup command &
> exit
>
> ..It still hangs..
>
> So it's a solution for the most common case.=)
            ^^^^^^^^
Plrase, 'workaround' or 'hack', not the solution. :-/

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