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Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation

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Message #8 received at 20214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Isaac Schwabacher <ischwabacher <at> wisc.edu>, 20214 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20214: Nohup input redirection inconsistent with documentation
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:11:39 -0700

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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?

[0001-nohup-clarify-stdin-redirection.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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