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... -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Jose Marcio MARTINS DA CRUZ Ecole des Mines de Paris http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr 60, bd Saint Michel http://www.ensmp.fr/~martins 75272 - PARIS CEDEX 06 mailto:Jose-Marcio.Martins@ensmp.fr
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