Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 18:39:44
Message-Id: 200605031257.14196.bss03@volumehost.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide by Jorge Almeida
1 On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:25, Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt>
2 wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide':
3 > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote:
4 > > It's just bash scripting, just tell bash to exec child.sh in the
5 > > background.
6 > >
7 > > /path/to/child.sh &
8 >
9 > Nope. I need the child in the foreground, so that its output and stderr
10 > goes to multilog.
11
12 Putting something in the background doesn't change what it's std(in|out|
13 err) are attached to. They will still go to the [pt]ty like normal. If
14 you *want* then redirected somewhere else, you are free to do so with
15 standard redirection operations before the ampersand.
16
17 --
18 "If there's one thing we've established over the years,
19 it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
20 clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
21 -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] kill a child and suicide Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt>