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From: david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: nohup(1) reverts to earlier state
Message-ID: <5501@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 19:27:30 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 17 19:27:30 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Apr-85 19:27:30 EST
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Some time ago, when too many people discovered background processing by
appending an ampersand to the command line, locking was added to nohup(1)
to prevent multiple simultaneous background processes by a single user.
Since ms(1) and format(1) now use batch(1) to queue print requests, this
need has largely disappeared, and the locking code has been removed from
nohup.

Now that's progress!
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				David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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