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@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for it's copy of the stderr file
+  descriptor.  This avoids some nohup-induced hangs.  For example, before
+  this change, if you ran `ssh localhost', then `nohup sleep 600 </dev/null &',
+  and then exited that remote shell, the ssh session would hang until the
+  10-minute sleep terminated.  With the fixed nohup, the ssh sessions
+  terminates immediately.
+
   `expr' now conforms to POSIX better:
 
     Integers like -0 and 00 are now treated as zero.