Re: nohup feature request / Please fwd to Jim Meyering

[Phillip Susi]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Well, perhaps in a sense *anything* is possible with enough code to
> implement it.  However as originally designed and currently written it
> is not possible for nohup to do this.  It is only possible for nohup
> if it were rewritten to be a completely different program.  It would
> need to be an active participant in the I/O.  And I would hate to
> invalidate all of the Unix documentation written to date on nohup.

It has no need to be an active participant in the IO; it just needs to 
change the name it passes to open() when it sets up the file descriptors 
prior to exec().