[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#578624: Bug#578624: josm does not start via "josm & exit"

[Giovanni Mascellani]

severity 578624 normal
thanks

Hi Christoph.

Christoph Anton Mitterer ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 13:25 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
>> Why would you want to do that? That line means "start JOSM in the background, 
>> then exit".
> Yes...

Did you notice that you can do the trick using nohup? You don't need it
to block the HUP, but I think that using it has the side effect of
convincing josm that the stdout is still open (and josm appears to be
happy with that).

I really don't think such a bug can be considered important, I'm
lowering it to normal (considering also the fact that an easy workaroung
is available).

> I guess there most be some other error here.
> 
> E.g. when starting josm like that:
> 
> $ josm > /dev/null 2> /dev/null & exit
> 
> It starts normally (while the shell/terminal are closed.).

I really don't think this behavior is somehow asked by josm itself.
Maybe is a bug/feature of the JRE. I'll do some tries ASAP, in order to
confirm it.

Thanks, Giovanni.
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Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani at poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Pisa, Italy

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