Re: Lindows programs unexpectantly closing

Chris F.A. Johnson said:
On 2007-06-29, sk8r-365 wrote:

If you use '&' there is little likelihood for output because that
shell will not have that app as a child process.

A background process *is* a child of the shell that spawned it, and
anything it sends to stdout or stderr will appear in that shell.

Not always the case from what I've seen. Had a problem with gphoto2
a while ago - I use a card reader now because of it - and _no_ error
messages appeared *anywhere* I searched to indicate why the application
crashed when trying to access the camera. Plus, on Debian Etch,
gnomesword 2.1.9-1 crashes without any output messages either to console
or .xsession-errors when executed without or without an ampersand.
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