>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:


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