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setsid

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run a program in a new session

User commands5 optionsutil-linux 2.41-5
setsid [options] program [arguments]

Options

5
-c--ctty

Set the controlling terminal to the current one.

-f--fork

Always create a new process.

-w--wait

Wait for the execution of the program to end, and return the exit status of this program as the exit status of setsid.

-V--version

Display version information and exit.

-h--help

Display help text and exit.

DESCRIPTION

setsid runs a program in a new session. The command calls fork(2) if already a process group leader. Otherwise, it executes a program in the current process. This default behavior is possible to override by the --fork option.

AUTHORS

Rick Sladkey jrs@world.std.com

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

The setsid command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

See also

setsid(2)