Re: [PATCH] git help -w should not create nohup.out

From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2008, 10:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20080208103307.GT30368@dpotapov.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcgkm7yy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:40:21PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> >
> >> git-help--browse uses 'nohup' to launch some browsers.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > "nohup" should be used to start a program that should persist even after 
> > you logged out.  I fail to see how this should be sensible for "git help 
> > -w".  So "off with the head", uh, do away with the "nohup", I say!
> 
> True.  Christian, what was the reason you added nohup?
> I would imagine if you did this:
> 
> 	(1) open a new xterm;
> 
>         (2) in that xterm, run the browser, perhaps from
>             git-help--browse, but without nohup, in the
>             background;
> 
> 	(3) exit the terminal
> 
> then the browser might get upset, losing its controlling
> terminal.

I also thought so, therefore, I suggested to redict the output to /dev/null instead of removing "nohup", but now after some testing, it seems there is no need for "nohup" here. So, unless Christian has a good reason for "nohup", I agree with Johannes that "nohup" should be removed.

Dmitry