Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:48:10 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I daemonize a process? Message-ID: <20070723084810.GE44455@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <46A46910.9080901@u.washington.edu> References: <46A46910.9080901@u.washington.edu>
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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? > Thanks, > -Garrett The proper way to do this is to use the setsid() function. If it is somehow not available on one of your target system, some people use a hack which consists in calling fork() two times to daemonize the process; that is supposed to work too. Cheers, Maxime
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