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?
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