What is an advantage of executing a process in background?
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Answer / vishal
there r two main advantage :
1.you can use console to execute your command.
2.More importantlly if one is connected through remote
console and as there is no controlling terminal attached to
background process even if your teminal get disconnected
the process continues (with help of nohup in shell script
or by using setsid in C)
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Answer / jolly
If a process is running in background then the same process
will continue to run on the Unix server without any
communication with the front console.
the console can be reused.
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