On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:42:45PM +0000, homemr@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:15:07PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > > How do I configure (.mailcap) to make the application detach > > from the mutt process? > You can get mutt_bgrun from the internet and use it in your .mailcap. > application/pdf; mutt_bgrun xpdf %s ; copiousoutput You can also use: application/pdf; sh -c "exec xpdf %s > /dev/null 2>&1 &" & ; copiousoutput If you don't background (&) it twice, it will remain as a child process of mutt, and if mutt doesn't reap it when it exits, will zombify and take up a process table slot unnecessarily. By having it spawned as a grandchild, when its parent exits, it will become an orphan and being a somewhat maternal program, init will inherit it, and arrange for a proper ceremony when it dies. -- A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? <URL:http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/> -><-
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