While I do not see this as a bug, it would be a useful feature for Linux boxes, (and I guess Mac OS and possibly BSD if you are running Minecraft on top of that). Windows would need a bit of a different approach.
That being said, many other game servers run in a similar fashion, where the server runs in the foreground (I'm looking at you SRCDS). This is something that would be more likely to be implemented first in a modded server, such as Forge or Bukkit.
Tyler Doherty
While I do not see this as a bug, it would be a useful feature for Linux boxes, (and I guess Mac OS and possibly BSD if you are running Minecraft on top of that). Windows would need a bit of a different approach.
That being said, many other game servers run in a similar fashion, where the server runs in the foreground (I'm looking at you SRCDS). This is something that would be more likely to be implemented first in a modded server, such as Forge or Bukkit.