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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 8a9317d5f..094fbd422 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -12936,8 +12936,11 @@ Any @file{nohup.out} or @file{$HOME/nohup.out} file created by @command{nohup} is made readable and writable only to the user, regardless of the current umask settings. -If standard error is a terminal, it is redirected to the same file +If standard error is a terminal, it is normally redirected to the same file descriptor as the (possibly-redirected) standard output. +However, if standard output is closed, standard error terminal output +is instead appended to the file @file{nohup.out} or +@file{$HOME/nohup.out} as above. @command{nohup} does not automatically put the command it runs in the background; you must do that explicitly, by ending the command line |