[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#578624: josm does not start via "josm & exit"

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

reopen 578624
stop


Hi David.

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 13:25 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> Why would you want to do that? That line means "start JOSM in the background, 
> then exit".
Yes...

> If you exit the shell, you also kill all its children processes -- 
No...
a) What you probably refer to is that shells may send SIGHUP to it's
childprocesses, which bash does not per default. (huponexit=off)

b) Even if it would be on, it would just send SIGHUP but neither SIGKILL
(as you stated) or SIGTERM, etc.


> and josm is one of them.
Just try it with another application, e.g. 
$ xman & exit

I observe, that xman stays open, but the shell exits.


I guess there most be some other error here.

E.g. when starting josm like that:

$ josm > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & exit

It starts normally (while the shell/terminal are closed.).


Cheers,
Chris.
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