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1 | .\" Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> |
| 2 | .\" In the public domain. | |
| cf8e0bae | 3 | .TH SETSID 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" |
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4 | .SH NAME |
| 5 | setsid \- run a program in a new session | |
| 6 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 5293ad1a | 7 | .B setsid |
| 5e43af7e | 8 | [options] |
| 5293ad1a | 9 | .I program |
| 5e43af7e | 10 | .RI [ arguments ] |
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11 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 12 | .B setsid | |
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13 | runs a program in a new session. The command calls |
| 14 | .BR fork (2) | |
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15 | if already a process group leader. Otherwise, it executes a program in the |
| 16 | current process. This default behavior is possible to override by | |
| 17 | the \fB\-\-fork\fR option. | |
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18 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 19 | .TP | |
| cf8e0bae | 20 | .BR \-c , " \-\-ctty" |
| 8a2f04dd | 21 | Set the controlling terminal to the current one. |
| 0dde1997 | 22 | .TP |
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23 | .BR \-f , " \-\-fork" |
| 24 | Always create a new process. | |
| 25 | .TP | |
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26 | .BR \-w , " \-\-wait" |
| 27 | Wait for the execution of the program to end, and return the exit value of | |
| 28 | this program as the return value of | |
| 0dde1997 | 29 | .BR setsid . |
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30 | .TP |
| 31 | .BR \-V , " \-\-version" | |
| 32 | Display version information and exit. | |
| 33 | .TP | |
| 34 | .BR \-h , " \-\-help" | |
| 35 | Display help text and exit. | |
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36 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 37 | .BR setsid (2) | |
| 38 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 39 | Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> | |
| 86d62711 | 40 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 601d12fb | 41 | The setsid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| d673b74e | 42 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |