SYD-PDS(1)

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💅 SYD-PDS — bestie, let's talk

okay so this is the manual page for syd-pds, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section (1), so you already know it's a user-facing command and not some dusty kernel thing. it's giving "small utility, big job" energy. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

syd-pds — run a command with the parent death signal set. that's it, that's the whole vibe 😌

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

syd-pds [-h] [-s signal] {command [args...]}

like, you give it a command (plus any args it wants), and optionally -h or -s signal. the {command [args...]} bit is in braces because it's the actual thing you're wrapping, bestie 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so syd-pds(1) runs a command with the parent death signal set. what does that mean? it means when the parent process dies, the specified signal gets delivered to the command. yes, delivered. it's like a little goodbye note that hits different 💀

the signal defaults to SIGKILL, which is lowkey the most dramatic one available, but honestly? iconic. no cap. 🔥

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • -h — display help. slay, classic, we love a help flag 🌈
  • -s signal — set the parent death signal to the specified signal. defaults to SIGKILL. so if you don't pick, you get SIGKILL, periodt ✨

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

syd-pds exits with the same code as the child process. fr fr — whatever the child returns, that's what you get back. no sneaky remapping, no main-character interference from the wrapper 👑

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

syd homepage: https://sydbox.exherbo.org/ — go click around, iykyk 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

maintained by Ali Polatel. up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and on Radicle at rad:z38HCnbmcDegA2BMxuPaPRPMdp6wF. bugs/patches can be submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. discuss in #sydbox on Libera Chat or in #sydbox:mailstation.de on Matrix. come hang out, the group chat is literally always open 🫶

ngl, if you're wrapping something in syd-pds you probably care about cleanup, so double-check which signal you actually want before you let it default to SIGKILL 😭

and that's the page, bestie! 🍓 this particular edition is dated 2026-09-01, brought to you by the syd-pds(1) crew — go forth and set those parent death signals, mwah 💋🧚

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