Isaac Schwabacher wrote:

> This is confusing at best

Yes, at the very least the documentation should be improved.  I installed the 
attached patch to try to do that.

> Is it really better for a read on stdin to fail with EBADF rather than simply returning EOF

It depends on whether we want GNU nohup to be a universal donor or a universal 
acceptor.  Right now it's more the former (if a program works with GNU nohup it 
should be portable to other nohup platforms); a nohup that makes stdin read from 
/dev/null would be more "accepting" of badly-written code developed elsewhere. 
I suppose I could be talked into that, particularly given Matlab's misbehavior 
here.  Jim?