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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)
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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
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