On 5 May 2011 05:30, Ryan Dortmans wrote: > Hi, > > I have found that background processes prevent the terminal window > from closing. I have tried with the cmd terminal as well as mintty. > Here is a simple example: > > $ notepad .profile & > [1] 10260 > $ exit > logout > > The window remains until I close the notepad window. I have also > reproduced the issue using a simple looping shell script instead of a > windows program. > > I thought that running disown would detach the process to turn it into > a daemon, but this has no effect.
No, this just removes it from the shell's job control, but it still remains connected to the terminal session. > Is there any way to detach running background processes such that the > terminal can be closed? You can start a program in a separate session using the 'setsid' utility from the util-linux package. I don't know whether it's possible to detach a running process. You can close the terminal anyway though using the Close button (or Alt+F4 in the case of mintty), except of course that the background process might also be closed, depending on its SIGHUP handling. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
