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Bug: Background doesn't work as expected, should be deprecated and eventually removed #332

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def background(*args)

The problem is that background simply nohup and backgrounds the process using the shell's job control &. More often than not, badly behaved daemons still block.

There's many hoops to jump through to ensure that your process behaves well when backgrounded, forked, nohupped, etc - and we can't whitelist programs that do it well, and blacklist those that can't.

Discussion is welcome, but I do think that background() should be removed from the DSL.

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