Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:35:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com> Subject: Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108241734300.60806-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20010824233404.I33784@strontium.shef.vinosystems.com>
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I thought that nohup() did that? I guess it's abit different... On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Ben Smithurst wrote: > 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). > >> > >> 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 > > Err... putting a process in the background is quite different to > detaching it from the terminal. Or did I miss your point? > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD: The Power To Serve > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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