GNU bug report logs - #20214
Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher <at> wisc.edu>

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:15:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 20214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 20214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20214: Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 20:06:26 -0600

tags 20214 fixed
close 20214
stop

(triaging old bugs0

>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>> 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.

On 29/03/15 10:07 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Thinking about this some more, I conclude that history, and the 
> ability to expose a few misuses are perhaps not sufficient argument 
> for maintaining the status quo. So if you (Paul) want to flip nohup
> to universal acceptor, I would not object.
With nohup's documentation improved,
and no further comments/changes in 3 years, I'm closing this as "fixed".

-assaf
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 263 days ago.

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