John Darrow --> netbsd-help (2006-02-01 19:47:41 -0600):
> Try the following, produces no shell job output for me under 3.0 /bin/sh
> and /bin/ksh:
> 
> mypid=$(sleep 30 >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!)
> [...]
> kill $mypid

Interesting! But this doesn't seem to work if you don't redirect stdout:
the shell waits for the command to return. Unfortunately, the process
I'd like to run in the background needs to write to stdout...


Regards, Jukka

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