detach mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• detach

Projektgeschichte

Robbert Haarman's official detach page is dated 2010-12-11 and still presents the project as a minimalist command-line tool. The page offers an initial 0.1.0 source release and a later 0.2.3 release that added pidfiles, explicit stdin/stdout/stderr files, and a foreground mode.

Adoptionsgeschichte

detach occupies the old-school Unix packaging niche: tiny source tarball, Makefile installation, and availability through package managers for users who want a command rather than a shell built-in. Its official documentation emphasizes portability across OpenBSD, NetBSD, GNU/Linux, and Mac OS X rather than a large plugin ecosystem.

Wie es verwendet wird

The common use case is launching a command so it survives terminal exit without depending on shell job control. The official examples compare it with setsid, disown, and nohup, and show why a standalone executable can be useful from scripts or other programs.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, detach is interesting because it packages one precise process-control behavior as a tiny, portable C utility. It sits in the same mental drawer as nohup, setsid, daemon helpers, and shell job-control commands, but with a deliberately narrow interface.

Zeitleiste

• 2010: Official detach page dated 2010-12-11 documents the tool and source releases.
• 2010: Initial 0.1.0 release provided the minimal command-running behavior.
• 2010: Release 0.2.3 added pidfiles, stream-file options, and foreground execution.

Related projects

• The official documentation directly compares detach with util-linux setsid, shell disown built-ins, and POSIX-style nohup.

Quellen

• https://inglorion.net/software/detach/