Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please call the new option --output=FILE (no short-named option). > If you do this, please also update the documentation:
I see one detail here that needs to be nailed down. One might think that the user could easily implement the equivalent of: nohup --output=FILE COMMAND by executing: nohup COMMAND >FILE However, these two commands should have different effects when FILE is a terminal: the former should send all output to FILE, whereas POSIX requires that the latter must send all output to 'nohup.out' instead. So, I suggest that the documentation and code make it clear that the "--output=FILE" output means something more than "use the name FILE rather than the name 'nohup.out'". The option also means "send the output to FILE regardless of whether FILE is a terminal". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
