Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:50:17 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com> Subject: Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1) Message-ID: <3B87F369.4598E4D7@elischer.org> References: <20010824141955.B64018@coffee.q9media.com> <20010825153129.A761@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>
> Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 14:19:55, mike (Mike Barcroft) wrote about "Proposed Utility - detach(1)":
>
> > 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?
>
> You can add an option to nohup(1) to call setsid() or daemon().
> IMO this task is too little to create separate executable.
excellent idea
>
> /netch
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