Re^7: Long Process Waits Until End to Display Results

It is possible that he did not properly background the forked-off process,

What should I be doing to make sure the process is properly backgrounded?

Charles Thomas
Madison, WI

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Re^8: Long Process Waits Until End to Display Results by tilly (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2004 at 22:08 UTC
Close all file descriptors. That either means calling close on STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR (or opening them to files) or else launching a new process with all of those redirected. You could have found that at this FAQ entry.	[reply]