nohup no help when terminal window goes down

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
shell
Domain
cli, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reading the issue and the linked previous thread at scripting/Scripting-News#138 to understand the reported nohup behavior. The issue does not name a project file or test; done would require clarifying the expected detached-process behavior and documenting the relevant guidance.

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Description

I thought that if I run an app detached using nohup, that if I quit the terminal window, or my desktop system powers off, the app would continue to run. It doesn't.

See previous thread for background.

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