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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-05-26 19:27:50 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2005-05-26 19:27:50 +0000
commit8597e1fd2d4014aa8fe7c1848a48cba455eb8070 (patch)
tree391c68f549a7383a5ddb0830ecc9c7b56e7fe1b9 /NEWS
parent3d8bc90af37c384ad944b57324adf469038d9802 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-8597e1fd2d4014aa8fe7c1848a48cba455eb8070.tar.xz
nohup now redirects a tty stdin to an unreadable fd instead of closing it.
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@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
join now supports a NUL field separator, e.g., "join -t '\0'".
join now detects and reports incompatible options, e.g., "join -t x -t y",
- nohup now closes stdin if it is a terminal, unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+ If stdin is a terminal, nohup now closes it and then reopens it with an
+ unreadable file descriptor. (This step is skipped if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.)
This prevents the command from tying up an OpenSSH session after you logout.
stat -f -c %S outputs the fundamental block size (used for block counts).