[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: setsid-0.0-3

[Terrence Brannon]

>Basically it allows to call an application, say `sleep', like this:
>
>  setsid sleep 10
>
>`setsid' forks and detaches from the controlling terminal and so
>the inferior application will not be attached to the terminal as
>well.  Or, to make it short, you can start an application as above
>and immediately close the Windows console window while that application
>keeps running.
>
>  
>
that sounds like nohup a bit...

no need to reply... just thinking out loud




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