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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:15:48 -0500
From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)
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On Friday, August 24, 2001, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> I would appreciate comments on the usefulness of a utility which would
> allow one to detach a process from a TTY.  I imagine the utility would
> be very small and just call daemon(3) and execlp(3).
> 
> Would a utility like this be useful?  Is this functionality already
> available in a system utility?

   All shells implement this:

sh:
$ sleep 5 &
$ 
[1] 61049 Exit 0              sleep 5

ksh:
$ sleep 5 &
[1]     61052
$ 
[1] +  Done                    sleep 5&

csh:
% sleep 5 &
[1] 61058
% 
[1]    Done                          sleep 5

etc.

   Why does this need to be implemented in a separate executable?

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