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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-06 02:42:50 +0000
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+.\" Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
+.\" In the public domain.
+.TH SETSID 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+setsid \- run a program in a new session
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B setsid
+[options]
+.I program
+.RI [ arguments ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B setsid
+runs a program in a new session. The command calls
+.BR 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 \fB\-\-fork\fR option.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR \-c , " \-\-ctty"
+Set the controlling terminal to the current one.
+.TP
+.BR \-f , " \-\-fork"
+Always create a new process.
+.TP
+.BR \-w , " \-\-wait"
+Wait for the execution of the program to end, and return the exit value of
+this program as the return value of
+.BR setsid .
+.TP
+.BR \-V , " \-\-version"
+Display version information and exit.
+.TP
+.BR \-h , " \-\-help"
+Display help text and exit.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR setsid (2)
+.SH AUTHOR
+Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The setsid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.