NAME

rundetach - run a program in the background

SYNOPSIS

rundetach [-hV] program [ args ... ]

DESCRIPTION

rundetach forks a child process into the background, detached from a controlling terminal, in its own session and process group. It then runs program with any additional arguments given in args.

If program does not contain a ``/'' slash character, rundetach will perform a shell-like search for the executable using the PATH variable in the current environment.

OPTIONS

-h

Help. Print a brief usage message to stderr and exit.

-V

Version. Print the version number to stderr and exit.

EXIT STATUS

rundetach exits with one of the following values:

0

program was invoked and completed successfully. In this case, the exit code is returned by the program, rather than by rundetach itself.

100

rundetach failed because of a usage error, such as an invalid command-line option or argument. In this case, rundetach prints a brief error message and usage help to stderr on exit.

111

rundetach failed due to some system or resource error. In this case, rundetach prints a brief diagnostic message to stderr on exit.

1-127

program was invoked and failed with its own non-zero exit status.

AUTHOR

Wayne Marshall, http://b0llix.net/perp/

SEE ALSO

runtools_intro(8), runargs(8), runargv0(8), runchoom(8), rundeux(8), runenv(8), runfile(8), runlimit(8), runlock(8), runpause(8), runsession(8), runtool(8), runtrap(8), runuid(8)