Preventing Idle in telnet, security, and bg.

Michael Meissner meissner at osf.org
Sat Sep 29 04:08:35 AEST 1990


In article <14228 at hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (JIM BURNS) writes:

| The man page for 'csh' says "all processes detached with & are effectively
| nohup'ed."  Kind of makes you wonder why nohup exists.

I believe nohup preceeded the csh.  Besides real programmers use
/bin/sh which does NOT do the automatic nohup'ing.
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