Reptyr - Reparent a running program to a new terminal

And the related blog entries of the author:

http://blog.nelhage.com/2011/02/changing-ctty/

http://blog.nelhage.com/2011/01/reptyr-attach-a-running-proc...

And related projects:

http://blog.habets.pp.se/2009/03/Moving-a-process-to-another...

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/neercs

Are there clear reasons to use this over bg and disown in bash?

[edit] Ah, never been unfortunate enough to disown the wrong process, so I guess I see the need to reparent something now. Cool.

Related: the Ksplice blog has a great post on disown and how to manage processes:

http://blog.ksplice.com/2011/03/disown-zombie-children-and-t...

Previous discussion on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f768r/reptyr_at...

Also note you need permissive ptrace settings for this to work. The package's README contains more details.