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Date:      Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:54:58 +0200
From:      Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz <Jose-Marcio.Martins@ensmp.fr>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I daemonize a process?
Message-ID:  <46A46CE2.4060607@ensmp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <46A46A40.1080004@fs.ei.tum.de>
References:  <46A46910.9080901@u.washington.edu>	<46A4699C.5080906@u.washington.edu> <46A46A40.1080004@fs.ei.tum.de>

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Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>    As the subject suggests I'm trying to determine how I can 
>>> daemonize a C process, outside of using the rc infrastructure, so 
>>> that it won't exit when the TTY exists. Does anyone know any quick 
>>> references or examples?


> 
> I suggest daemon(3) if it doesn't have to be portable.

Or something like this, if it has to be portable or if you don't want
to modify C code :

	nohup /pathto/c-application &

You'll eventually need to add things like redirect stdout to /dev/null...


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