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A minimal process wrapper

parent

A minimal process wrapper that simply forwards all signals to the child process and waits for the child to exit.

Useful for containers.

Usage

parent <command> [<args>...]

Use Case

Sample use case for a Dockerfile to use env vars in entrypoint.

...

ENV MY_ENV=value

ENTRYPOINT [/usr/bin/parent]
CMD["echo", "$MY_ENV"]