Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-29 Thread Igor Podlesny
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). 1) cd /usr/ports/sysutils/detach have fun... 2) the code itself is rather simple and I

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-28 Thread Maksim Yevmenkin
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

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 09:53:21AM +0200, Mark Santcroos wrote: 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. The BSD/OS 4.1 code is also available for us to take this utility from. To

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-26 Thread Josh M Osborne
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 02:10:29AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: [...] The BSD/OS 4.1 code is also available for us to take this utility from. Really? I didn't know they donated all of that. Anyway it isn't a complex program. When I migrated from BSD/OS to FreeBSD it is one of the things I

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-25 Thread Julian Elischer
Valentin Nechayev wrote: Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 14:19:55, mike (Mike Barcroft) wrote about "Proposed Utility - detach(1)": 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

Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Mike Barcroft
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?

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Peter da Silva
Here's the original PR I sent in, and my code: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=6320 The included shell archive has a man page and source code that works, and has been run successfuly on systems as disparate as Xenix-286 and Tru64. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Julian Elischer
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

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Chris Costello
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

Re: Proposed Utility - detach(1)

2001-08-24 Thread Ben Smithurst
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