Added nohup vs disown tip to README (a33a334) - python_pinger.git

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 These are different approaches to how one might implement a daemon to
 repeatedly ping multiple hosts to see if the network is up.
 
+## Aside: disown vs nohup
+
+Once you have such a daemon, you could call it with nohup or disown it
+after running it in the background. Here's a [good description of the subtle differences](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/148698/282848).
+
+### Using disown
+
+    mydaemon.py &
+    disown [jobid]
+
+### Using nohup
+
+    nohup mydaemon.py &
+
 ## Single Threaded
 
 This is the most naive implementation. For each ping host, the main


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3	3	These are different approaches to how one might implement a daemon to
4	4	repeatedly ping multiple hosts to see if the network is up.
5	5
	6	+## Aside: disown vs nohup
	7	+
	8	+Once you have such a daemon, you could call it with nohup or disown it
	9	+after running it in the background. Here's a [good description of the subtle differences](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/148698/282848).
	10	+
	11	+### Using disown
	12	+
	13	+ mydaemon.py &
	14	+ disown [jobid]
	15	+
	16	+### Using nohup
	17	+
	18	+ nohup mydaemon.py &
	19	+
6	20	## Single Threaded
7	21
8	22	This is the most naive implementation. For each ping host, the main
9	23