> The behavior of nohup was intentionally changed in 5.90, as permitted by
> POSIX: "If stdin is a terminal, nohup now redirects it from /dev/null to
> prevent the command from tying up an OpenSSH session after you logout."

That makes sense, but maybe we could bring back the former behavior
as an option, i.e. "nohup --keeptty" or some such?  It seems useful.

I'll be happy to submit a patch unless it's a bad idea for some reason.

Evan Hunt


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