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.  This default behavior is possible to override by
  17 the \fB\-\-fork\fR option.
  18 .SH OPTIONS
  19 .TP
  20 .BR \-c , " \-\-ctty"
  21 Set the controlling terminal to the current one.
  22 .TP
  23 .BR \-f , " \-\-fork"
  24 Always create a new process.
  25 .TP
  26 .BR \-w , " \-\-wait"
  27 Wait for the execution of the program to end, and return the exit status of
  28 this program as the exit status of
  29 .BR setsid .
  30 .TP
  31 .BR \-V , " \-\-version"
  32 Display version information and exit.
  33 .TP
  34 .BR \-h , " \-\-help"
  35 Display help text and exit.
  36 .SH SEE ALSO
  37 .BR setsid (2)
  38 .SH AUTHORS
  39 Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
  40 .SH AVAILABILITY
  41 The setsid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
  42 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.