Subject: standards/11231: POSIX.2: nohup doesn't accept "--" option/operand separator
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/14/2000 10:26:11
>Number: 11231
>Category: standards
>Synopsis: POSIX.2: nohup doesn't accept "--" option/operand separator
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: standards-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 14 10:26:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Ben Harris
>Release: 2000-02-07
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD cromarty 1.4X NetBSD 1.4X (CROMARTY) #9: Wed May 3 23:49:51 BST 2000
bjh21@cromarty:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/CROMARTY macppc
>Description:
According to POSIX.2, nohup should accept and ignore a first argument of
"--". NetBSD's one doesn't.
>How-To-Repeat:
cromarty:~$ nohup -- true
sending output to nohup.out
cromarty:~$ cat nohup.out
nohup: --: No such file or directory
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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