3 intr \- run a command with interrupts enabled
13 executes a command with keyboard interrupts enabled, and standard input,
14 output and error redirected to the terminal or the console. It may also
15 be used for the opposite: to detach a process from the terminal.
17 There are three situations where intr may be used: From a process that has
18 no controlling tty, like the shell running
20 at boot time, from a script that runs in the background, or by the System
21 Administrator to restart a daemon.
27 as a controlling tty and as standard input, output and error. In the
32 to connect the command to the controlling tty. In the third case the
33 process will be removed from the process group, and will have I/O redirected
42 Daemonize a process instead of bringing it to the foreground. Don't forget
43 to use '&' to make the shell not wait for the process, because you won't be
44 able to kill it with the interrupt key.
47 Schedule an alarm to kill the process in the given number of seconds.
48 Use it for a process that may wait indefinitely for a service that may
53 Main computer console.
56 Message logging device.
59 Name for the controlling tty.
68 should fork to daemonize a process, but the author likes it if the process
69 stays in the jobs list of his shell.
71 Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)