Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Blake) writes: > > nohup - POSIX requires that stdout from utility may to go to nohup.out, so > > nohup.out should probably be opened in same mode as nohup's stdout (if it > > exists) > > nohup.out is currently opened in text mode. Let's just leave that > alone, unless someone really needs it. (I doubt whether they will.)
Since nohup.out is expected to be the terminal output of the command it makes the most sense to me if it is text mode since it is most likely to always be text. It seems very unlikely any normal case would not be text. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
