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by ecnahc515 21 days ago
I've been impacted by this particular "issue" and while it's changing the way "decades of convention" it's not really a bad thing imo. Running things via screen and tmux as a solution to background tasks has always been a huge hack imo. Not only that but the alternative approaches with nohup and disown also have their own issues. Imo it's actually pretty reasonable to need to work work the OS service manager to run background tasks, even with tmux and screen.
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Those were just the most prominent things, which were immediately noticed because it's completely normal to leave them open remotely to maintain context for something and quickly pick it back up when reconnecting. It's kind of their whole purpose. But the change affected everything, including for example the "daemonize" program.