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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Background processes in post-receive hook
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Sitaram Chamarty wrote:

> interestingly, the double fork trick doesn't work either...
>
>   ( ( long-running-command & ) )

Hopefully closing the output pipe does the trick.

	exec long-running-command >&- 2>&- &

Thanks for an interesting example.
Jonathan