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Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 04:30:00 -0000
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Subject: Background processes prevent terminal window from closing
From: Ryan Dortmans <ryandort.cygwin@gmail.com>
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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.

Is there any way to detach running background processes such that the
terminal can be closed?

Cheers,

Ryan Dortmans

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