Spawn a process in Java that survives a JVM shutdown

Question

I need to spawn a process in Java (under Linux exclusively) that will continue to run after the JVM has exited. How can I do this?

Basically the Java app should sp

Answer 1

It does actually "just work", unless you're trying to be clever.

My wrapped java.lang.Process was trying to capture the script's output, so when the JVM died, the script didn't have anywhere to send output so it just dies. If I don't try to capture the output, or the script doesn't generate any or redirects everything to a file or /dev/null, everything works as it should.