Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > interestingly, the double fork trick doesn't work either... > > ( ( long-running-command & ) ) Hopefully closing the output pipe does the trick. exec long-running-command >&- 2>&- & Thanks for an interesting example. Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html