[linux-help] Re: Help with spawning a program

[Brian Chapman <tchapman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6/3/00 08:15 AM , Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> Is there a way to spawn a program without it being a child of the
> spawning program?  I think this is the right terminology.  My problem
> is that I view URLs from mutt with the urlview program.  It starts
> Netscape and feeds it the URL.  If I finish reading my mail and exit
> mutt, Netscape dies as well, not always what I want.  Can I start
> Netscape in a way that it is not connected to mutt?

From what i understand, programs control netscape through it's 'remote'
procedures, however if a netscape process does not exist, one is created
and is attached to which ever shell the calling process created it from.
So you could either make sure a netcape process is already running, or
perhaps you could have it spawned from its own shell (aka: bash -c
netscape ..etc..)

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