sys-utils/setsid.1

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