Zach Beane xach@xach.com writes:
In the past, the sbcl hangup has been caused by a kernel problem. You can work around it by starting sbcl as "nohup sbcl" instead of plain "sbcl". Upgrading to a more recent kernel may also fix the problem for you.
I did C-u M-x slime RET (I noticed that I could use a prefix argument by reading the source). Then at the prompt I got I prepended "nohup" before the program (/usr/local/bin/sbcl in my case). It worked!
Will there be any bad side effects from doing this (using nohup) or can I expect it to work whatever I want to do?