Re: nohup feature request / Please fwd to Jim Meyering

[John Cowan]

Bob Proulx scripsit:

> > My request is: could the output be preceded by
> > 1) the name/PID of the process that produces the output.
> > 2) the time that the output was produced.
> 
> I don't think that is possible without an active participation by a
> process.

Indeed, I don't see how it's possible at all.  If nohup were to run
its program using a pipe to intercept standard output and error,
it wouldn't be able to tell child output from grandchild output.
Data in a pipe is not tagged with its originator in any way.

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