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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:34:04 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
Subject:   Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)
Message-ID:  <20010824233404.I33784@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010824171548.A60451@holly.calldei.com>
References:  <20010824141955.B64018@coffee.q9media.com> <20010824171548.A60451@holly.calldei.com>

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Chris Costello wrote:

> 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).
>>=20
>> Would a utility like this be useful?  Is this functionality already
>> available in a system utility?
>=20
>    All shells implement this:
>=20
> sh:
> $ sleep 5 &
> $=20
> [1] 61049 Exit 0              sleep 5

Err... putting a process in the background is quite different to
detaching it from the terminal.  Or did I miss your point?

--=20
Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org                 FreeBSD: The Power To Serve
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