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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