Re: huponexit in bash (solved!)
--- Olive Esseret <olive_esseret@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to configure bash in order that background
> process remains alive if we close the windows from
> which we have lauched the process (this would be
> especially usefull for X applications: if I lauch
> emacs& ; I do not want that closing the xterm
> windows
> close emacs). I have tried the
> shopt -u huponexit
> option but it does not work for nacground process:
> shopt -u huponexit
> emacs&
> then if we close the xterm window; emacs will quit.
>
> I can manually disown the process:
> emacs& disown
> but would it possible to have that automatically?
>
> Olive
>
I have finally found the somewhat ugly hack to achieve
my purpose:
PROMPT_COMMAND='disown -a -h'
in the startup file.
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