Thanks for the replies.  I had hoped that there was indeed that change in
process creation, but I can live with the current implementation.
I am currently using a shortcut "o", defined as:

~ λ which o
o is an alias, defined as "setsid -w gio open $*"

Best regards,
Jeff

On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 4:46 PM Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/3/2024 1:09 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > On Okt 02 2024, Jeff Kowalski wrote:
> >
> >> Recall we're still trying to get the "xdg-open file.txt" case to work
> >> correctly.
> >
> > This is not possible as long as eshell creates a new session for each
> > command and closes it immediately after the command exits.  You can
> > observe the same effect if you run "xterm -e 'xdg-open file.txt'".
>
> I'm not sure there's a way to avoid creating a new session for each
> command, at least not without a bunch of changes to process.c (though if
> someone disagrees, I'd be happy for some pointers in the right
> direction). As a workaround, if you make sure that the I/O handles for
> "xdg-open" are all pipes, that should outsmart it, e.g.:
>
>    echo | xdg-open <whatever> |& cat
>