Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:29:50 -0700 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <myevmenk@digisle.net> To: 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: <3B86D55E.A9BB0815@digisle.net> 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). > > > > 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? what you probably want to do is: % nohup sleep 5 & to make sure that proccess is still alive if you logout. thanks, max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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