From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:06:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Background processes in post-receive hook
Message-ID: <20110403050619.GA32750@elie>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin4-fMhi_5H1oZ+gPB99stj5GRjVA@mail.gmail.com>

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