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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
- nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for it's copy of the stderr file
+ nohup now sets the close-on-exec flag for its 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