disown a process in ksh

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Published on 2009-05-05T10:38:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 4:08 UTC
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The "disown" command works in bash, but not in ksh.

If I have started a process in ksh, how can I "disown" it, so I can exit my shell. (I know about nohup, but the process has already started!)

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