Subject: Re: bug#25234: 25.1; call-process vs. start-process and xdg-open

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:28:13 -0500

The issue (I assume) is that xdg-open creates its new process (evince,
whatever) by forking. Then the original xdg-open process exits, which as
far as Emacs knows means it is done.

See eg https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262