Basically it allows to call an application, say `sleep', like this:that sounds like nohup a bit...
setsid sleep 10
`setsid' forks and detaches from the controlling terminal and so the inferior application will not be attached to the terminal as well. Or, to make it short, you can start an application as above and immediately close the Windows console window while that application keeps running.
no need to reply... just thinking out loud
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