From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:38:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
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(nohup invocation): Tell what happens when stdout is not a terminal.
Based on a suggestion from Steven Mocking.
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 425dc80717..96c557068a 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -11267,6 +11267,8 @@ If standard output is a terminal, it is redirected so that it is appended
 to the file @file{nohup.out}; if that cannot be written to, it is appended
 to the file @file{$HOME/nohup.out}.  If that cannot be written to, the
 command is not run.
+If standard output is not a terminal, then the standard output of
+@var{command} will be the same as that of @command{nohup}.
 
 If @command{nohup} creates either @file{nohup.out} or
 @file{$HOME/nohup.out}, it creates it with no ``group'' or ``other''