This is odd.

This is odd.

[Andrew Morton]

bix:/home/morton> DISPLAY=localhost:0 xterm &
[1] 10761
bix:/home/morton> disown xterm
disown: job not found: xterm
bix:/home/morton> jobs
[1]  + running    DISPLAY=localhost:0 xterm
bix:/home/morton> disown DISPLAY=localhost:0
bix:/home/morton>

Re: This is odd.

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

"Andrew Morton" <morton@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

> bix:/home/morton> DISPLAY=localhost:0 xterm &
> [1] 10761
> bix:/home/morton> disown xterm

you need to set a :

disown %xterm

> disown: job not found: xterm bix:/home/morton> jobs [1] + running
> DISPLAY=localhost:0 xterm bix:/home/morton> disown
> DISPLAY=localhost:0 bix:/home/morton>

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Re: This is odd.

[Bart Schaefer]

On Jun 10,  6:37am, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
} Subject: Re: This is odd.
}
} "Andrew Morton" <morton@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
} 
} > bix:/home/morton> DISPLAY=localhost:0 xterm &
} > [1] 10761
} > bix:/home/morton> disown xterm
} 
} you need to set a :
} 
} disown %xterm

No, that doesn't work either.  Zsh is treating "DISPLAY=..." as the first
word of the command.

However,

	disown %?xterm

will work, because that searches the entire command string rather than
just the first word.

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