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Subject: Re: How to run a GNAT program without starting a terminal session
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On 2018-07-17 23:12, Shark8 wrote:
> A lot of the cases I've seen where daemons are used/needed are because the language [PHP in this case] didn't have any notion of TASKs and DELAYs -- rather frustrating to come across when it's so trivially easy in Ada.

No, that is not it at all.
A daemon is a detached background process, like services are on windows.
They have no user interface and are supposed to run a long time.
webservers, mailservers etc are typically daemons.
Has absolutely nothing to do whit language/tasks/delays at all

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_%28computing%29>

However this is what I thought you wanted, a process in the background.
But I realize it is not.

I have not seen the option that Jeff talks about in MacOsx, junst in
windows and in Linux desktops.
Perhaps you can use
<http://sveinbjorn.org/platypus>

Write a one-liner bash that starts you program, and point platypus to that.

(No I have not tried it myself)

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Björn