Re: & and M-& to run programs asynchronously

[Juri Linkov]

> I don't know if it's worth to open a new thread, but as this one is
> related I'll like to report some problem I've had while testing the
> new "&" command  (dired-do-async-shell-command).
>
> If you use it to execute a command that opens a child process then it
> will have no effect at all, the parent process will be finished and no
> program will be executed. You can reproduce this if you execute &
> xdg-open (freedesktop command for opening a file).
>
> dired-do-shell-command does work when you use it to execute xdg-open,
> but it will run the program synchronously.
>
> Would it be possible to fix this so that "&" waits for child processes
> running asynchronously to finish?

I see that running `M-! xdg-open file &' works correctly on KDE,
but fails on Gnome.  Is this an Emacs bug at all?

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/