From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:54:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: nohup now ignores POSIXLY_CORRECT and redirects from /dev/null.
X-Git-Tag: CPPI-1_12~243
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=738c09d59c7b1d1c535e77406e0ff29c5b61f5da;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

nohup now ignores POSIXLY_CORRECT and redirects from /dev/null.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cc8af44529..7e11635f4b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -186,9 +186,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   ls no longer outputs an extra space between the mode and the link count
   when none of the listed files has an ACL.
 
-  If stdin is a terminal, nohup now closes it and then reopens it with an
-  unreadable file descriptor.  (This step is skipped if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.)
-  This prevents the command from tying up an OpenSSH session after you logout.
+  If stdin is a terminal, nohup now redirects it from /dev/null to
+  prevent the command from tying up an OpenSSH session after you logout.
 
   stat -f -c %S outputs the fundamental block size (used for block counts).
   stat -f's default output format has been changed to output this size as well.