shoudn't nohup close stdin ?

[Samuel Landau]

Hello

Scripts launched with nohup make ssh hang on exit because nohup does not close
stdin when exec'ing command. Shouldn't it close stdin ? Its default behavior
is to redirect stdout and stderr, so why not closing stdin as well ?

here's a patch :

$ diff nohup.nostdin /usr/bin/nohup  
76c76 
<     exec "$niceprog" -5 -- "$@" >> nohup.out 2>&1 <&- 
--- 
>     exec "$niceprog" -5 -- "$@" >> nohup.out 2>&1 
81c81 
<     exec "$niceprog" -5 -- "$@" >> $HOME/nohup.out 2>&1 <&- 
--- 
>     exec "$niceprog" -5 -- "$@" >> $HOME/nohup.out 2>&1 
85c85 
<   exec "$niceprog" -5 -- "$@" <&- 
--- 
>   exec "$niceprog" -5 -- "$@" 

Regards,

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Samuel Landau
Doctorant LIP6 - équipe MIRIAD (SMA)
LIP6 PhD student - MIRIAD team (MAS)
homepage : http://miriad.lip6.fr/~landau