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?
>
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