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

>>don't believe the spawned process will die when the JVM exits.

Child process is always dying on my box(SuSE) whenever I kill java. I think, the child process will die if it's dealing with I/O of the parent process(i.e., java)