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BSD/OS already has daemon(8) for years that just runs daemon(3).
I don't think it is necessary to change nohup, and go with the way BSD/OS
did it.
Mark
ps. the manpage:
daemon(8) BSD System Manager's Manual daemon(8)
NAME
daemon - run detached from the controlling terminal
SYNOPSIS
daemon [-cf] command arguments ...
DESCRIPTION
The daemon utility detaches itself from the controlling terminal and
exec(3)'s the program specified by its arguments.
The options are as follows:
-c Change the current working directory to the root (``/'').
-f Redirect standard input, standard output and standard error to
/dev/null.
The daemon utility exits 1 if an error is returned by the daemon(3) li-
brary routine, otherwise 0. If the command cannot be exec'd, an error
message is displayed on standard error unless the -f flag is specified.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:19:55PM -0400, 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?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mike Barcroft
>
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