Detach running process?
Erik Bågfors
zindar at gmail.com
Mon May 16 07:00:24 UTC 2005
On 5/16/05, Scott Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:16 +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> > Depends on how you define "detach".
> >
> > Perhaps ctrl-z followed by "bg" is what you are looking for. Just
> > remember that that process is still attached to your tty. So if you
> > kill it, you kill the process.
>
> Not entirely true. After you bg(or background) a process, you can
> disown it, by typing disown right after you type bg. Or disown will
> take a shell pid(its always %n where n is the number of processes
> running under the shell). I think it will also take system pids, but
> I'm not sure. man disown for more info on it.
True... didn't think of that :)
/Erik
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