Re: nohup feature request / Please fwd to Jim Meyering

[Phillip Susi]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Uhm...  I think we drifted from the feature discussion:

How so?

> Jack van de Vossenberg wrote:
> > My request is: could the output be preceded by
> > 1) the name/PID of the process that produces the output.
> > 2) the time that the output was produced.
>
> I don't think that is possible without an active participation by a
> process.

What requires any kind of active participation?  The only thing 
requested is that nohup open a file named with the current time and pid 
instead of /dev/null prior to exec()ing the given command.