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by jeffbee 623 days ago
> without being attached to a terminal

Isn't that more the job of `nohup`?
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kazinator 623 days ago
No. While nohup redirects standard input and output and block the SIGHUP signal, it does not actually detach the process from the TTY session.
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thwarted 623 days ago
No, nohup, as the name says, is about filtering/ignoring signals, specifically HUP, that are sent when the parent process shell exits.
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