Name
fghack — an anti-backgrounding tool
Description
fghack runs child
with many extra descriptors writing to a pipe.
fghack reads and discards any data written to the pipe.
After child
has exited and the pipe has been closed, fghack exits.
History
fghack was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's daemontools toolset in 2001.
Author
Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein.
Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.