Re: nohup Versus setsid

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:01:37 +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

In article <vbtqcd$2sce$1@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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It has long seemed to me that nohup(1) was an old, hacky way of doing
what can be done more elegantly using setsid(1).

 
I don't know the details, but the descriptions look quite different...
nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
setsid - run a program in a new session

The effect is supposed to be the same: spawn a background task that will
continue running after you log out.